Nested strike-slip duplexes, and other evidence for Late Cretaceous-Palaeogene transpressional tectonics before and during India-Eurasia collision, in Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 799-812

  Morley, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Duplexes; Indochina; Mae Ping; Orogeny; Transpression

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; EURASIAN PLATE; INDIAN PLATE; PALEOGENE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 4344582744     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-124     Document Type: Article

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