From spatial variation of fracture patterns to fold kinematics: A geomechanical approach

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bellahsen, Nicolas ^a,b   Fiore, P E ^a   Pollard, D D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION-PARALLEL JOINT SET; ELASTIC DISLOCATION MODELS; FRACTURE PATTERNS; GEOMECHANICAL APPROACH;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FOLDING; KINEMATICS; LARAMIDE OROGENY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33644757007     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024189     Document Type: Article

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