Ductile structures and instabilities: Their implication for Variscan tectonics in the Ardennes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 309, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 1-25

  Burg, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Instabilities; Shear deformation; Structural analysis; Variscan tectonics

Indexed keywords

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INSTABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0032751879     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00129-8     Document Type: Article

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