Controls on the geometry of fold-thrust belt salients

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1808-1822

  Macedo, Juliano ^a,b   Marshak, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POINT CONTACTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONVERGENCE DIRECTIONS; DEGREE OF ASYMMETRY; DETACHMENT SURFACES; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PETROLEUM EXPLORATION; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

GEOMETRY;

DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EID: 0033495710     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1808:COTGOF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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