Multiple mechanisms driving detachment folding as deduced from 3D reconstruction and geomechanical restoration: The Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, Southern Pyrenees)

Basin Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-313

  Vidal Royo, Oskar ^a   Cardozo, Nestor ^b   Muñoz, Josep Anton ^a   Hardy, Stuart ^a,c   Maerten, Laurent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d IGEOSS sarl Parc Euromédecine ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FOLD; FOLDING; KINEMATICS; ROCK MECHANICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84860112747     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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