Interaction between structural inheritance and extension direction during graben and depocentre formation: An experimental approach

Tectonophysics

Volumn 409, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 125-146

  Michon, Laurent ^a   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Depocentre; Extension; Rhinegraben; Tanganyika

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; RIFT ZONE;

EID: 28444434515     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.08.020     Document Type: Article

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