Segmentation of the Longmen Mountains thrust belt, Western Sichuan Foreland Basin, SW China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 107-121

  Jin, Wenzheng ^a   Tang, Liangjie ^b,c   Yang, Keming ^d   Wan, Guimei ^b,c   Lü, Zhizhou ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting   (China)

^d SINOPEC   (China)

Author keywords

Duplex; Longmen Mountains thrust belt; Segmentation; Structural style; Transfer zone

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FOLD BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; JURASSIC; LONGMEN MOUNTAIN; SEISMIC SECTIONS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS; THRUST BELTS; THRUST FAULTS; TRANSFER ZONES; TRIASSIC; WESTERN SICHUAN;

TANTALUM;

LANDFORMS;

FOLD BELT; KLIPPE; NAPPE; SEGMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT; TRANSFER ZONE;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77950543783     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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