Fault-slip, bed-length and area variations in experimental rollover anticlines over listric normal faults: Influence in extension and depth to detachment estimations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 396, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 97-117

  Poblet, Josep ^a   Bulnes, Mayte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Detachment depth; Extension; Listric normal fault; Physical experiment; Rollover anticline

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOLDING; TECTONOPHYSICS;

EID: 12144265467     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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