Scale-relationships and geometry of normal faults reactivated during gravitational gliding of Albian rafts (Espírito Santo Basin, SE Brazil)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 331-332, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-96

  Alves, Tiago M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andean Orogeny; Crustal shortening; Fault throw; Normal faulting; Raft tectonics; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

ANDEAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DOWNSLOPE; FAULT REACTIVATION; FAULT THROW; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LATE CRETACEOUS; NORMAL FAULTS; SEDIMENT LOADING; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STUDY AREAS; SUBBASINS; TECTONIC TILTING;

DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LOADING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FAULTING;

ALBIAN; ANDEAN OROGENY; ANTICLINE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; FRAGMENTATION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL; ESPIRITO SANTO BASIN;

EID: 84860532304     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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