Curvature and fracturing based on global positioning system data collected at Sheep Mountain anticline, Wyoming

Geosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 408-421

  Allwardt, Patricia Fiore ^a,c   Bellahsen, Nicolas ^b   Pollard, David D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

Folds; Fractures; GPS; Intensity; Variance analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; CURVATURE; DATA SET; FOLD; FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMETRY; GPS; PRECISION; SPATIAL DATA; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; SHEEP MOUNTAIN [WYOMING]; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 38349158649     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00088.1     Document Type: Article

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