Map-view models for correcting and calculating shortening estimates in rotated thrust fronts using paleomagnetic data

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 383, Issue , 2004, Pages 57-71

  Pueyo, E L ^a,b,d   Pocovi A ^a   Millan H ^a   Sussman, A J ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

External Sierras; Paleomagnetism; Rotation; Shortening correction; Southern pyrenees

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; RESTORATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EXTERNAL SIERRAS; GEOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETISM; PYRENEES; RIGID BODY ROTATION; ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

ROTATION;

CROSS SECTION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFLECTION; FAULT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HANGING WALL; KINEMATICS; PALEOMAGNETISM; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THRUST;

PYRENEES;

EID: 79951849121     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[57:MMFCAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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