Low-taper intercutaneous wedges: A model for opposing shear senses on coeval, subparallel shears

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-423

  Windh, Jacqueline ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SRK CONSULTING   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; OROGENY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THRUST;

CANADA;

EID: 0032413135     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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