Tectonic nature and siesmic response of top-basement detachment faults in magma-poor rifted margins

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Hölker, Andreas B ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^b   Holliger, Klaus ^a   Bernoulli, Daniel ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS Universite Louis Pasteur   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Downward concave detachment faults; Faults extensional allochthons; Rifted margins; Seismic modeling; Seismic response; Top basement detachment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; DETACHMENT FAULT; KINEMATICS; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0344667711     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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