Sheath fold development in bulk simple shear: Analogue modeling of natural examples from the Southern Iberian Variscan fold belt

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 193, Issue , 2001, Pages 101-110

  Rosas, Filipe M ^a   Marques, Fernando O ^a   Coelho, Sara ^a   Fonseca, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; NON-CYLINDRICAL; RIGID INCLUSION; ROTATION VELOCITY; SIMPLE SHEAR; VISCOUS MATRIX;

CROSS SECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOLD; FOLD BELT; GEOMETRY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; RHIZOSPHERE; RIGIDITY; ROTATION; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84871183965     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.101     Document Type: Article

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