Styles of soft-sediment deformation on top of a growing fold system in the Gosau Group at Muttekopf, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria: Slumping versus tectonic deformation

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 99-118

  Ortner, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Growth strata; Northern Calcareous Alps; Slumping; Soft sediment deformation; Tectonic deformation; Turbidite deep water

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITION; DISLOCATION; FOLD; GRAVITY FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SHEAR ZONE; SLUMPING; TURBIDITE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN CALCAREOUS ALPS;

EID: 33847349791     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.028     Document Type: Article

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