Growth of extensional faults and folds during deposition of an evaporite-dominated half-graben basin; the Carboniferous Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 137-161

  Braathen, Alvar ^a   Bælum, Karoline ^a,b   Maher Jr , Harmon ^c   Buckley, Simon J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d Uni CIPR   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLDING; GRABEN; HANGING WALL; MONOCLINE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARCTIC; BILLEFJORDEN; GULF OF SUEZ; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84857186895     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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