What controls thickness of sediments and lithospheric deformation at a pull-apart basin?

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 389-392

  Petrunin, Alexey ^a,b   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dead; Numerical model; Pull apart basin; Sea basin

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; PULL-APART BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP DISPLACEMENT; SURFACE HEAT FLOW;

DEFORMATION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

CATCHMENTS;

DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; MODEL; PULL APART BASIN; SEDIMENT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THERMOMECHANICS;

AFRICA; ASIA; DEAD SEA; EGYPT; EURASIA; GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; RED SEA COAST;

EID: 33646783307     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22158.1     Document Type: Article

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