The role of detachment faulting in the formation of an ocean-continent transition: Insights from the Iberia Abyssal Plain

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 187, Issue , 2001, Pages 405-428

  Manatschal, G ^a   Froitzheim, N ^a   Rubenach, M ^a   Turrin, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT PROPAGATION; KINEMATICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035719341     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.187.01.20     Document Type: Article

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