Architecture of fault zones determined from outcrop, cores, 3-D seismic tomography and geostatistical modeling: Example from the Albalá Granitic Pluton, SW Iberian Variscan Massif

Tectonophysics

Volumn 361, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 97-120

  Escuder Viruete, J ^a   Carbonell, R ^b   Marti D ^b   Jurado, M J ^b   Perez Estaun A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fault architecture; Fault zone; Geostatistical modeling; Seismic tomography; SW Iberian Massif

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; GEOSTATISTICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

SPAIN;

EID: 0037426694     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00586-3     Document Type: Article

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