Unravelling the evolution of an Alpine to post-glacially active fault in the Swiss Alps

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1943-1959

  Ustaszewski, Michaela ^a   Herwegh, Marco ^a   McClymont, Alastair F ^b   Pfiffner, O Adrian ^a   Pickering, Robyn ^a   Preusser, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Brittle reactivation; Fault dating; Fluid flow in faults; Neotectonics; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE REACTIVATION; DEXTRAL SLIP; NEOTECTONICS;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURVEYING; TECTONICS; TRENCHING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; NEOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 36649003665     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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