Alternating thin versus thick-skinned decollements, example in a fast tectonic setting: The Misool-Onin-Kumawa Ridge (West Papua)

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-459

  Sapin, F ^a,c   Pubellier, M ^a   Ringenbach, J C ^b   Bailly, V ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CSTJF   (France)

^c TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

East Indonesia Irian Jaya; Mechanical stratigraphy; Misool Onin Kumawa Ridge; Seram accretionary wedge; Thick skinned tectonics; Thin skinned tectonics

Indexed keywords

EAST INDONESIA - IRIAN JAYA; MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY; MISOOL-ONIN-KUMAWA RIDGE; SERAM ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; THICK-SKINNED TECTONICS; THIN-SKINNED TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ANTICLINE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; DATA SET; DECOLLEMENT; DEFOLIATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MESSINIAN; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 64449087674     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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