The roles of complex mechanical stratigraphy and syn-kinematic sedimentation in fold development: Insights from discrete-element modelling and application to the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, Southern Pyrenees)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 349, Issue , 2011, Pages 45-60

  Vidal Royo, Oskar ^a   Hardy, Stuart ^a,b   Muñoz, Josep Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOCENE; OUTCROP; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARAGON; HUESCA [ARAGON]; JACA BASIN; PICO DEL AGUILA; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 79951470410     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP349.3     Document Type: Article

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