A transpressional origin for the West Spitsbergen fold-and-thrust belt: Insight from analog modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Leever, Karen A ^a,b   Gabrielsen, Roy H ^a   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Braathen, Alvar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Department of Lithosphere Dynamics Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; QUARTZ; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANALOG MODELING; ANALOG MODELS; BARENTS SEA; CONVERGENCE ANGLE; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GREENLAND; HEAD-ON COLLISION; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LOCAL STRAINS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOCENE; QUARTZ SAND; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP ZONES; SPITSBERGEN; STRAIN PARTITIONING; THIN LAYERS; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY; TRANSPRESSION;

TECTONICS;

ANALOG MODEL; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; QUARTZ; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; GREENLAND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79955407381     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002753     Document Type: Article

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