An explicit plate kinematic model for the orogeny in the southern Uralides

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Görz, Ines ^a   Hielscher, Peggy ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plate kinematics; Southern Uralides; Spherical geometry; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD; DEVONIANS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EULER POLES; EXPLICIT MODELS; KAZAKHSTAN; NEW APPROACHES; PALAEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PLATE KINEMATICS; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE TECTONICS; ROTATION ANGLES; SIBERIA; SOUTHERN URALIDES; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WEST SIBERIA;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; POLES; ROTATION; SPHERES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CARBONIFEROUS; EARTH ROTATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; URALIDE OROGENY;

EUROPE; KAZAKHSTAN; SIBERIA;

EID: 77958058244     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.07.005     Document Type: Review

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