Reverse drag revisited: Why footwall deformation may be the key to inferring listric fault geometry

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 98-109

  Resor, Phillip G ^a   Pollard, David D ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Listric fault; Normal faulting; Reverse drag; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

COULOMB STRESS; ELASTIC BOUNDARY; FAULT DEPTH; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOOTWALL UPLIFT; GRAPHICAL APPROACH; INVERSE MODELING; LISTRIC FAULT; MODEL GEOMETRY; NEAR-SURFACE; NORMAL FAULTS; PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; STRUCTURAL MODELING; THREE MODELS;

DEFORMATION; DRAG; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

GEOMETRY;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLDING; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; LISTRIC FAULT; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRAIN; STRESS;

EID: 84863991156     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.10.012     Document Type: Article

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