Along-strike variations and internal details of chevron-style, flexural-slip thrust-propagation folds within the southern Livingstone Range anticlinorium, a paleohydrocarbon reservoir in Southern Alberta Foothills, Canada

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1821-1850

  Cooley, Michael A ^a   Price, Raymond A ^a   Dixon, John M ^a   Kyser, T Kurtis ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS;

CATACLASTIC FLOW; COMPLEX FRACTURING; CURVATURE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; MINOR COMPONENTS; PRESSURE SOLUTION; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

DEFORMATION;

ANTICLINE; BASEMENT ROCK; CURVATURE; DECOLLEMENT; DEVONIAN; DISPLACEMENT; FLEXURE; HANGING WALL; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; SLIP; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); THRUST FAULT; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 81755171149     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.130e/01271107097     Document Type: Article

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