Evidence for post-Acadian through Alleghanian deformation in eastern Maine: Multiple brittle reactivation of the Norumbega Fault system

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-52

  Wang, Chunzeng ^a   Ludman, Allan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; PALEOSTRESS; PALEOZOIC; REACTIVATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042198795     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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