Mechanical versus kinematical shortening reconstructions of the Zagros High Folded Zone (Kurdistan region of Iraq)

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Frehner, Marcel ^a,b   Reif, Daniel ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; RHEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

COLLISION OROGENS; CROSS SECTION; DOMAIN METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FOLDING PROCESS; INTERFACIAL SLIP; LAYER INTERFACES; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; NEWTONIANS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER;

TECTONICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS SECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RHEOLOGY;

IRAQ; KURDISTAN [IRAQ];

EID: 84861311205     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003010     Document Type: Article

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