Modelling of stylolite geometries and stress scaling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 341-344, Issue , 2012, Pages 104-113

  Koehn, D ^a   Ebner, M ^b   Renard, F ^c,d   Toussaint, R ^e   Passchier, C W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compaction; Numerical model; Pressure solution; Self affinity; Stress gauge; Stylolite

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; APPLIED STRESS; BIMODAL GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FORMATION STRESS; NONLINEAR GROWTH; PRESSURE SOLUTION; PRINCIPLE STRESS; REAL STRUCTURE; ROCK HETEROGENEITY; SELF AFFINITY; STRESS GAUGES; STRESS-GAUGE; STYLOLITE; UNIFORM GRAIN SIZE;

COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAGES; NUMERICAL MODELS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

COMPACTION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSTRESS; PRESSURE EFFECT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRESS FIELD; STYLOLITE;

EID: 84862285423     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.046     Document Type: Article

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