Types of transpressional and transtensional deformation

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 193, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-20

  Ghosh, Subir Kumar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; STRAIN; VORTICITY;

CONTINUOUS DEFORMATIONS; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; KINEMATIC VORTICITY; LATERAL EXTRUSION; PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; VORTICITY VECTORS;

DEFORMATION;

CLEAVAGE; COMPLEXITY; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FOLDING; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN; TRANSPRESSION; VORTICITY;

EID: 33846828873     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.1     Document Type: Article

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