Three-dimensional numerical models of the evolution of pull-apart basins

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 387-399

  Petrunin, A G ^a,b   Sobolev, S V ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Pull apart basin; Tectonophysics; Thermomechanical modeling; Transform fault

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPETITION; DEFORMATION; FORMING; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; STRAIN RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BASIN EVOLUTIONS; BASIN SUBSIDENCES; BRITTLE LAYERS; COMMON FEATURES; CRUSTAL EXTENSIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; DEAD SEAS; DEEP BASINS; FAULT SLIPS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; LOW FRICTIONS; MATERIAL SOFTENING; MIDDLE EASTS; MODELING RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PULL-APART BASIN; SLIP DEFORMATIONS; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; SLIP SYSTEMS; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBSIDENCE RATES; TECTONOPHYSICS; THERMO MECHANICALS; THERMOMECHANICAL MODELING; TRANSFORM FAULT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PULL APART BASIN; RHEOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOPHYSICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 55749089430     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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