Dextral transpression at the Casco Bay restraining bend, Norumbega fault zone, coastal Maine

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 331, Issue , 1999, Pages 85-104

  Swanson, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); SHEAR STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CROSS-SECTION GEOMETRY; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FLOWER STRUCTURES; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; STRIKE SLIP SYSTEMS; SYNTECTONIC INTRUSIONS; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEVONIAN; FAULT ZONE; PALEOZOIC; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR ZONE;

APPALACHIANS; CASCO BAY; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870874629     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2331-0.85     Document Type: Article

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