Four-dimensional analysis of analog models: Experiments on transfer zones in fold and thrust belts

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 193, Issue , 2001, Pages 179-190

  Schreurs, Guido ^a   Hänni, Reto ^a   Vock, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

X RAYS;

COMPUTER VISUALIZATION; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; RHEOLOGICAL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CARBONATE RAMP; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FOLD; DISPLACEMENT; RHEOLOGY; THRUST FAULT; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; X-RAY;

EID: 4644331673     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.179     Document Type: Article

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