How plate tectonics is recorded in chalk deposits along the eastern english Channel in Normandy (France) and Sussex (UK)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 581, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-181

  Duperret, Anne ^a   Vandycke, Sara ^b   Mortimore, Rory N ^c   Genter, Albert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Anglo Paris basin; Chalk; Lithostratigraphy; Meso scale fracturing; Paleostress; The Eastern English Channel

Indexed keywords

ANGLO-PARIS BASIN; CHALK; ENGLISH CHANNEL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESO SCALE; PALEO-STRESS;

DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; GEODYNAMICS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

LIMESTONE;

AFRICAN PLATE; ANTICLINE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CENOZOIC; CHALK; CRETACEOUS; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT SLIP; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOSTRESS; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ANGLO-PARIS BASIN; ENGLAND; ENGLISH CHANNEL; FRANCE; NORMANDY; SUSSEX; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84870429788     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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