Style and sequence of deformation during extensional fault-propagation folding: Examples from the Hammam Faraun and El-Qaa fault blocks, Suez Rift, Egypt

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 519-535

  Jackson, C A L ^a,b   Gawthorpe, R L ^a   Sharp, I R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extensional basins; Fault propagation folding; Layer parallel slip; Normal faulting; Suez Rift

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL BASINS; FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDING; LAYER-PARALLEL SLIP; NORMAL FAULTING; SUEZ RIFT;

DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLDING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; SINAI; SUEZ RIFT;

EID: 33644830254     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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