Control of preexisting faults on geometry and kinematics in the northernmost part of the Jura fold-and-thrust belt

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Ustaszewski, Kamil ^a,b   Schmid, Stefan M ^a,b  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEODYNAMICS; GRABEN; GROWTH FAULT; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; PALEOGENE; PLIOCENE; RIFTING; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); THIN SKINNED TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT; TRANSFER ZONE; TRIASSIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; JURA MOUNTAINS; RHINE VALLEY; UPPER RHINE VALLEY;

EID: 33846163183     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001915     Document Type: Article

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