Slip acceleration on normal faults due to erosion and sedimentation - Results from a new three-dimensional numerical model coupling tectonics and landscape evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 570-582

  Maniatis, Georgios ^a   Kurfeß, Daniel ^b   Hampel, Andrea ^a   Heidbach, Oliver ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fault; neotectonics; numerical modelling; slip rate; surface processes

Indexed keywords

FAULT; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; SLIP RATE; SURFACE PROCESSES;

FEEDBACK; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EROSION; FAULT GEOMETRY; HANGING WALL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTATION; SLIP RATE; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER CRUST;

EID: 67650676741     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.024     Document Type: Article

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