Decoupling along plate boundaries: Key variable controlling the mode of deformation and the geometry of collisional mountain belts

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-42

  Willingshofer, Emst ^a   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELING; COLLISION ZONE; COLLISIONAL MOUNTAIN BELTS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; INDENTERS; KEY VARIABLES; LATE MIOCENE; LITHOSPHERIC; LOCALIZED DEFORMATIONS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MODE OF DEFORMATION; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC WEDGE; OVERTHRUST; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLIOCENE; STRONG COUPLING; THREE-LAYER MODELS;

DEFORMATION;

TECTONICS;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULTING; FOLDING; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE;

EID: 68849086938     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25321A.1     Document Type: Article

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