The deep-water fold-and-thrust belt offshore NW Borneo: Gravity-driven versus basement-driven shortening

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 939-953

  Hesse, S ^a   Back, S ^a   Franke, D ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEEPWATER; DEEPWATER REGIONS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HOLOCENES; HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION; LATE PLIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NEO GENES; PLIOCENE; PRIMARY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; TECTONIC SHORTENING;

BUILDINGS; HYDROCARBONS;

TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEEP WATER; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; HOLOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 69949146319     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26411.1     Document Type: Article

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