Combined escape tectonics and subduction rollback-back are extension: A model for the evolution of tertiary rift basins in Thailand, Malaysia and Laos

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 461-474

  Morley, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Himalayan Orogeny; Rift zones; Strike slip faults; Subduction; Thailand

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; RIFT ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS; TERTIARY;

LAOS; MALAYSIA; THAILAND;

EID: 0034783694     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.158.3.461     Document Type: Article

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