3D architecture of a complex transcurrent rift system: The example of the Bay of Biscay-Western Pyrenees

Tectonophysics

Volumn 489, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 210-226

  Jammes, Suzon ^a   Tiberi, Christel ^b   Manatschal, Gianreto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

3D structure of rifted basins; Bay of Biscay; Gravimetric inversion; Seismic interpretation; Western Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

3D ARCHITECTURES; 3D STRUCTURE; BAY OF BISCAY; CRUSTAL THINNING; DETACHMENT FAULT; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EULER DECONVOLUTION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; HIGH-DENSITY BODIES; INVERSION METHODS; MANTLE ROCKS; PYRENEES; RIFT BASIN; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST BELTS; UPPER PLATE; V-SHAPE;

BUILDINGS; GRAVITATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DECONVOLUTION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GRAVIMETRY; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY; PYRENEES;

IBIS;

EID: 77953728024     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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