Sensitivity analysis of numerical scaled models of fold-and-thrust belts to granular material cohesion variation and comparison with analog experiments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 526-529, Issue , 2012, Pages 196-206

  Nilfouroushan, Faramarz ^a,b   Pysklywec, Russell ^b   Cruden, Alexander ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analog modeling; Brittle viscous; Cohesion; Fold and thrust belts; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODELING; BRITTLE-VISCOUS; COHESION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; NUMERICAL MODELING;

EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

ADHESION;

BRITTLE FAILURE; COHESION; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84857923887     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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