Present-day stress orientations and tectonic provinces of the NW Borneo collisional margin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  King, Rosalind C ^a   Tingay, Mark R P ^a,b   Hillis, Richard R ^a   Morley, Christopher K ^c   Clark, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PTTEP   (Thailand)

^d PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; COLLISION ZONE; COMPRESSION; DEEP WATER; DETACHMENT FAULT; NORMAL FAULT; PETROLEUM; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHY;

BORNEO;

EID: 77958541350     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006997     Document Type: Article

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