The Singu basalts (Myanmar): New constraints for the amount of recent offset on the Sagaing Fault;Les basaltes de Singu (Myanmar): Nouvelles contraintes sur le taux de decrochement recent de la faille de Sagaing

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 327, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 479-484

  Bertrand, Guillaume ^a   Rangin, Claude ^a   Maury, René C ^b   Htun, Hla Myo ^c   Bellon, Hervé ^b   Guillaud, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Amount of offset; Myanmar; Radiochronology; Sagaing fault; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; LAVA FLOW; PLATE MOTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

INDIA; MANDALAY; MYANMAR;

EID: 0032456387     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(99)80076-7     Document Type: Article

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