An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the Scotian Basin, offshore Atlantic Canada: 2. Comparison of observations with geometrically complex numerical models

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Albertz, Markus ^a,b   Beaumont, Christopher ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BUILDINGS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEDIMENTATION;

BASIN-EDGE; FIRST-ORDER; NUMERICAL MODELS; POISEUILLE FLOW; PROGRADATION; RECTANGULAR SHAPES; SALT EVACUATIONS; STEP DOWN; STRUCTURAL STYLES; SUBBASINS; CROSSSECTIONAL GEOMETRY; DENSITY INVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LATE CRETACEOUS; NORMAL FAULTS; PALEOGENE; PLANE STRAINS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; TECTONIC SYSTEM;

SALT TECTONICS;

AGGRADATION; BASEMENT ROCK; DIAPIR; FORMATION MECHANISM; OVERBURDEN; PROGRADATION; SALT TECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; CRETACEOUS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGENE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA;

EID: 77955541788     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002540     Document Type: Article

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