Balancing deformation in NW Borneo: Quantifying plate-scale vs. gravitational tectonics in a delta and deepwater fold-thrust belt system

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 238-246

  King, Rosalind C ^a   Backé, Guillaume ^a   Morley, Christopher K ^b   Hillis, Richard R ^a   Tingay, Mark R P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Geological and Geophysical Services   (Thailand)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2D restoration; Baram delta; Deepwater fold thrust belt; Delta system; Numerical modelling; NW Borneo

Indexed keywords

2D RESTORATION; BARAM DELTA; DEEPWATER FOLD-THRUST BELT; DELTA SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NW BORNEO;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RESTORATION; TECTONICS;

GRAVITATION;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; INVERSION TECTONICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

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

EID: 70449520199     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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