Escape tectonism in the Gulf of Thailand: Paleogene left-lateral pull-apart rifting in the Vietnamese part of the Malay Basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 483, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 365-376

  Fyhn, Michael B W ^a   Boldreel, Lars O ^a   Nielsen, Lars H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Escape tectonism; Malay Basin; Pull apart rifting; Strike slip; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSIONS; CENOZOIC; EARLY MIOCENE; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT ZONE; LATE EOCENE; LATE NEOGENE; LATERAL FRACTURE; LATERAL MOVEMENT; MALAY BASIN; NEO GENES; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; PLIOCENE; RIFT BASIN; SLIP ZONES; STRUCTURAL FABRIC; TECTONIC MODELS; THAILAND; VIET NAM;

SEDIMENTATION;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; EXTENSION; EXTRUSION; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE ZONE; PALEOGENE; PULL APART BASIN; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS;

GULF OF THAILAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; VIET NAM;

EID: 76849104062     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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