Precollision tilt of crustal blocks in rifted island arcs: Structural evidence from the Kohistan Arc

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Burg, Jean Pierre ^a   Jagoutz, Oliver ^a,b   Dawood, Hamid ^c   Shahid Hussain, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLOW STRUCTURE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISLAND ARC; LISTRIC FAULT; MESOZOIC; MICROSTRUCTURE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ASIA; EURASIA; KOHISTAN; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846035456     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001835     Document Type: Article

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