A new perspective on evolution of the Baikal Rift

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-365

  Mats, Victor D ^a,b   Perepelova, Tatiana I ^c  

^a Siberian Branch of the RAS ^*  (Israel)

^b LIMNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baikal Rift; Rifting mechanism; Sedimentary unit; Stress reversal; Tectonic phase; Three stage rift history

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD; GEODYNAMICS; GRABEN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOCENE; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 79960848200     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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