Layer parallelisation: An unrecognised mechanism for palaeomagnetic rotations in fold belts

Tectonophysics

Volumn 474, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 516-525

  Waldhör, Martin ^a   Appel, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformation; Folding; Palaeomagnetism; Rotation

Indexed keywords

BASIC MODELS; DATA SETS; DRIVING MECHANISM; FOLD BELTS; FOLDING; NON-CYLINDRICAL; PALAEOMAGNETISM; PARALLELISATION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; ROTATION PATTERN; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

DEFORMATION; GEOMAGNETISM;

ROTATION;

DATA SET; DEFORMATION; FOLD BELT; FOLDING; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROTATION;

EID: 69249229564     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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