Control of synorogenic sedimentation on back and out-of-sequence thrusting: Insights from analog modeling of an orogenic front (Outer Carpathians, southern Poland)

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Sieniawska, Iwona ^a   Aleksandrowski, Pawe ^a,b   Rauch, Marta ^c   Koyi, Hemin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ANALOG MODELING; CARPATHIANS; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DUCTILE LAYERS; MIOCENE; SEISMIC DATAS; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST FAULTS; THRUST WEDGES;

SEDIMENTATION;

ANALOG MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

CARPATHIANS;

EID: 78650538576     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002623     Document Type: Article

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