Interplay between tectonics and compaction in a rift-margin, lacustrine delta system: Miocene of the Eger Graben, Czech Republic

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1419-1447

  Rajchl, Michal ^a,b   Uličný, David ^c   Mach, Karel ^d  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d Severočeskédoly as Doly Bílina ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Compaction; Delta; Eger Graben; Extensional tectonics; Forced folding; Growth fault; Miocene

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ACTIVE FAULT; COMPACTION; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PROPAGATION; GRAIN SIZE; HANGING WALL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; OUTCROP; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 52449131428     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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