Lateral extrusion in a transpressional collision zone: An example from the pre-Tertiary metamorphic basement of Taiwan

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 358, Issue , 2002, Pages 107-120

  Pulver, Michael H ^a   Crespi, Jean M ^a   Byrne, Timothy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; GEARS; KINEMATICS; SLATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

KINEMATIC INDICATORS; LATERAL EXTRUSION; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; OBLIQUE COLLISION; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL FABRIC; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

BUILDINGS;

BASEMENT ROCK; BLOCK ROTATION; COLLISION ZONE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GNEISS; KINEMATICS; LINEATION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TERTIARY;

EID: 58149202007     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2358-2.107     Document Type: Article

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