Extensional forced folding and decollement of the pre-rift series along the Rhine graben and their influence on the geometry of the syn-rift sequences

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 169, Issue , 2000, Pages 73-86

  Maurin, Jean Christophe ^a   Niviere, Bertrand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; FOLDING; GRABEN; RIFT ZONE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0034085105     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.169.01.06     Document Type: Article

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