Thick-skinned and thin-skinned styles of continental contraction

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn , Issue 414, 2006, Pages 153-177

  Pfiffner, O Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; THICK-SKINNED TECTONICS; THIN-SKINNED TECTONICS;

FAULTING;

BELT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTRACTION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; MANTLE; METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; THRUST; UPPER CRUST; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LOWER CRUST; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 34247592823     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2414(09)     Document Type: Article

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