Relationship between structural style, overpressures, and modern stress, Baram Delta Province, northwest Borneo

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Morley, Christopher K ^a   Tingay, Mark ^b   Hillis, Richard ^b   King, Rosalind ^b  

^a PTTEP   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; OVERPRESSURE; STRESS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASIA; BARAM BASIN; BORNEO; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 56449084797     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005324     Document Type: Article

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