Insights from the Ocean Drilling Program on shear and fluid-flow at the mega-faults between actively converging plates

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 224, Issue , 2004, Pages 127-140

  Maltman, Alex ^a   Vannucchi, Paola ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; FAULT; FLUID FLOW; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PLATE BOUNDARY; SHEAR ZONE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COSTA RICAN MARGIN; LESSER ANTILLES; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 2942545682     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.224.01.09     Document Type: Article

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