Spatial and temporal relationships between compression, strike-slip and extension in the Central Venezuelan Andes: Clues for Plio-Quaternary tectonic escape

Tectonophysics

Volumn 425, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 25-53

  Backé, Guillaume ^a   Dhont, Damien ^a   Hervouët, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Collapse; Escape; Radar imagery; Strain partitioning; Tectonics; Venezuelan Andes

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; NEOGENE; QUATERNARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TECTONOPHYSICS; UPLIFT;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 33748870770     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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