Brittle tectonic evolution and paleostress field reconstruction in the southwestern part of the Fennoscandian Shield, Forsmark, Sweden

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Saintot, A ^a   Stephens, M B ^b   Viola, G ^a   Nordgulen, O ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE DRILLING; DEFORMATION; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE STRUCTURES; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION ZONE; DEXTRAL SLIP; DRILL CORE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT-SLIP DATUM; FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELDS; FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; MESOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEO-STRESS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC LENS;

TECTONICS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; EPIDOTE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; LAUMONTITE; OUTCROP; PALEOSTRESS; PROTEROZOIC; STRESS FIELD; SVECONORWEGIAN OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

BALTIC SHIELD; FORSMARK; SWEDEN; UPPSALA [SWEDEN];

EID: 79960216169     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002781     Document Type: Article

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