Transpressional structures on a Late Palaeozoic intracontinental transform fault, Canadian Appalachians

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 290, Issue , 2007, Pages 367-385

  Waldron, John W F ^a   Roselli, C ^a   Johnston, S K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLDING; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOZOIC; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

APPALACHIANS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AVALON ZONE; BAY OF FUNDY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38749126260     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP290.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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