Fault reactivation and selective abandonment in the oceanic lithosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Delescluse, M ^a,b   Montesi L G J ^c   Chamot Rooke, N ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRAIN RATE; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

DIFFUSE PLATE BOUNDARIES; FAULT REACTIVATION; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURROUNDING MATERIALS;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; NORMAL FAULT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RHEOLOGY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRAIN RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CENTRAL INDIAN BASIN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 55549122020     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035066     Document Type: Article

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