Strike-slip faulting, normal faulting, and lateral dike injections along a single fault: Field example of the Gljúfurá fault near a Tertiary oblique rift-transform zone, Borgarfjörour, west Iceland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Khodayar, Maryam ^a   Einarsson, Páll ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Dike injections; Iceland; Plate boundary processes; Rift jump

Indexed keywords

DIKE; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERTIARY;

BORGARFJORDUR; ICELAND;

EID: 0037053557     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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