Quantitative kinematic flow analysis from the Main Central Thrust Zone (NW-Himalaya, India): Implications for a decelerating strain path and the extrusion of orogenic wedges

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 837-853

  Grasemann, Bernhard ^a   Fritz, Harry ^b   Vannay, Jean Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DUCTILE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE DUCTILE FLOW; FLOW ANALYSIS; FRINGE FOLDS; MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE; MYLONITIC FOLIATION;

COOLING; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLCANOES;

LANDFORMS;

DEFORMATION; FLOW FIELD; KINEMATICS; STRAIN; THRUST;

INDIA;

EID: 0033165829     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(99)00077-2     Document Type: Article

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