Structural evolution and strike-slip tectonics off north-western Sumatra

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 119-132

  Berglar, Kai ^a   Gaedicke, Christoph ^a   Franke, Dieter ^a   Ladage, Stefan ^a   Klingelhoefer, Frauke ^b   Djajadihardja, Yusuf S ^c  

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

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY BPPT   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Forearc basin; Mentawai Fault Zone; Oblique subduction; Strike slip; Sumatra; West Andaman Fault

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDERS; FAULT ZONE; FORE-ARC BASIN; FOREARC; LATE MIOCENE; MENTAWAI FAULT ZONE; MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NEO GENES; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; OUTER ARC; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; SUMATRA; SWATH BATHYMETRY; THRUST FAULTS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

SLIP FORMING;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FOREARC BASIN; OBLIQUE FAULT; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

DERRIS TRIFOLIATA;

EID: 72649102478     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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