Calculating the long-term displacement rates of a normal fault from the high-resolution stratigraphic record (early Tethyan rifting, French Alps)

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 410-416

  Chevalier, F ^a   Guiraud, M ^a   Garcia, J P ^a   Dommergues, J L ^a   Quesne, D ^a   Allemand, P ^b   Dumont, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Institut Dolomieu   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISPLACEMENT; JURASSIC; NORMAL FAULT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TETHYS; VELOCITY;

ALPS; BOURG-D'OISANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ISERE; RHONE-ALPES; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346009187     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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