Continental strike-slip rifts and their stratigraphic signature: Application to the Bangong/Nujiang zone (Tibet) and the South Penninic zone (Alps)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 206-224

  Mattern, F ^a   Schneider, W ^b   Wang, P ^c   Li, C ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHANGSHA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alps; Bangong Nujiang; Continental dip slip rifting; Continental strike slip rifting; Dead Sea transform; Heat flow; Pantelleria rift; Romanche transform; San Andreas transform; South Penninic zone; Suez rift; Thermal doming; Thermal regime; Tibet; Uplift; Zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749147550     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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