Erosional control of the kinematics of the Aconcagua fold-and-thrust belt from numerical simulations and physical experiments

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 439-442

  Cruz, Leonardo ^a   Malinski, Julian ^a   Hernandez, Mia ^a   Take, Andrew ^b   Hilley, George ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BEDROCK INCISION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; INITIAL STAGES; K-VALUES; MASS REMOVAL; MEASURED FIELD; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROCK TYPES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

DEFORMATION; EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

ANALOG MODEL; BEDROCK; COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION; EROSION CONTROL; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRUST FAULT;

ACONCAGUA; ANDES; ARGENTINA;

EID: 79954594112     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31675.1     Document Type: Article

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