Kinematics of post-Caledonian polyphase brittle faulting in the Sunnfjord region, western Norway

Tectonophysics

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 99-121

  Braathen, Alvar ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brittle deformation; Kinematics; Norway; Phanerozoic; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

NORWAY;

EID: 0033557531     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00281-9     Document Type: Article

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