Interactions between the southern Appalachian-Ouachita orogenic belt and basement faults in the orogenic footwall and foreland

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 897-916

  Thomas, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT FAULTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FORELAND BASIN; LATE PALEOZOIC; OROGENIC BELTS; PARALLEL ORIENTATION; RIFTED MARGINS; TECTONIC LOADING;

BUILDINGS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT; FOOTWALL; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 79960088935     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(34)     Document Type: Article

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