Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Earth's oldest seismites

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 19-26

  Mazumder, Rajat ^a   van Loon, A J ^b   Arima, Makoto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaibasa Fm.; India; Proterozoic; Seismites; Soft sediment deformation structures

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33645883830     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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