Strain partitioning in gravity-driven shortening of a thick, multilayered evaporite sequence

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 449-470

  Cartwright, Joe ^a   Jackson, Martin ^b   Dooley, Tim ^b   Higgins, Simon ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETACHMENT FOLD; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; OVERBURDEN; PLEISTOCENE; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; STRAIN RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84857431962     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP363.21     Document Type: Article

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