Deformation bands in gravels: Displacement gradients and heterogeneous strain

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 905-913

  Exner, Ulrike ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATACLASIS; DEFORMATION BAND; DISAGGREGATION; DISPLACEMENT GRADIENTS; DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FAULT BLOCKS; GRAIN ROTATION; GRAVEL BED; HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN; MIDDLE MIOCENE; STRAIN GRADIENTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DRAG; GRAVEL; ROTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DISPLACEMENT; DRAG; GRAVEL; MIOCENE; STRAIN;

EID: 77956968196     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-076     Document Type: Article

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