Spacing of faults at the scale of the lithosphere and localization instability: 1. Theory

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Montési, Laurent G J ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Fault spacing; Faults; Folds; Instability analysis; Rheology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULT; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EID: 17744413534     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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