Fault characterization and paleostress analysis in the Precambrian rocks west of the Meatiq Dome, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-35

  Akawy, Ahmed ^a  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Eastern Desert; Egypt; Meatiq Dome; Paleodepth; Paleostress; Polyphase deformation; Rheology

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; PALEOSTRESS; PRECAMBRIAN; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EGYPT;

EID: 1842471930     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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