Continental collision and lateral escape deformation in the lower and upper crust: An example from Caledonide Svalbard

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-63

  Lyberis, Nikos ^a   Manby, Geoff ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0032975112     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900013     Document Type: Article

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