Pop-up tectonics of the shillong plateau in northeastern india: Insight from numerical simulations

Gondwana Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 395-404

  Islam, Md Shofiqul ^a,b   Shinjo, Ryuichi ^a   Kayal, J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dauki fault; Numerical simulation; Oldham fault; Pop up; Shillong plateau

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDIAN PLATE; MOHR THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

INDIA; SHILLONG PLATEAU;

EID: 79960321350     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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