Active faults in Africa: A review

Tectonophysics

Volumn 380, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 131-137

  Skobelev, S F ^a   Hanon, M ^b   Klerkx, J ^b   Govorova, N N ^a   Lukina, N V ^a   Kazmin, V G ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Active faults; Lineament; Neotectonics; Rift

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DATABASE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; TECTONOPHYSICS;

AFRICA;

EID: 1642294920     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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