Statistical analysis of an experimental compressional sand wedge

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 818-831

  Cubas, Nadaya ^a   Maillot, Bertrand ^b   Barnes, Christophe ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedge; Analogue modeling; Experimental error bar; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRAIN;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; ANALOGUE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; PLANE-STRAIN EXPERIMENT; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; QUASI-STATIC DEFORMATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

STATISTICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRICTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANE STRAIN; SAMPLING BIAS; THRUST;

EID: 77955923163     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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