Reactivation of basement faults: Interplay of ice-sheet advance, glacial lake formation and sediment loading

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Brandes, Christian ^a   Polom, Ulrich ^b   Winsemann, Jutta ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIER ADVANCE; ICE SHEET; NORMAL FAULT; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY;

GERMANY;

EID: 78751515957     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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