Contractional kink bands formed by stress deflection along pre-existing anisotropies? Examples from the Anglo-Brabant Deformation Belt (Belgium) and the North Dobrogea Orogen (Romania)

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1047-1059

  Debacker, Timothy N ^a   Seghedi, Antoneta ^b   Belmans, Marcel ^a   Sintubin, Manuel ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brabant Massif; Cleavage; Dobrogea; Kink band; Slate belt; Stress

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM (CO); DEFLECTION (OVALIZATION); DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; KINK BANDING; RELATIVE INTENSITIES; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; ROMANIA;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DEFORMATION; MECHANISMS;

ANISOTROPY;

DEFLECTION; DEFORMATION; KINK BAND; OROGENY; PALEOSTRESS; SLATE; STRESS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRABANT MASSIF; DOBROGEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48349111582     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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