Fault reactivation within Avalonia: Plate margin to continental interior deformation

Tectonophysics

Volumn 305, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 183-204

  Murphy, J Brendan ^a   Keppie, J Duncan ^b   Nance, R Damian ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Accretion; Avalonia; Fault reactivation; Gondwana; Pangea

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; REACTIVATION; TERRANE;

EID: 0033542015     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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