Fault-related folds and along-dip segmentation of breaching faults: Syn-diagenetic deformation in the south-western Sirt basin, Libya

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-128

  Fodor, L ^a,b   Turki M ^c   Dalub, H ^c   Al Gerbi, A ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Industrial Research Centre   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DIAGENESIS; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULTING; FOLDING;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NORTH AFRICA; SIRTE BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 17744378028     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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