Australian paleo-stress fields and tectonic reactivation over the past 100 Ma

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-28

  Muller R D ^a   Dyksterhuis, S ^a,b   Rey, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b EXXONMOBIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Cretaceous Recent; crustal deformation; fault reactivation; paleo stress; plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMETRY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSTRESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 84856861820     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2011.605801     Document Type: Article

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