Sedimentary and structural records of late Mesozoic high-strain extension and strain partitioning, East Gobi basin, southern Mongolia

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 413-433

  Johnson, Cari L ^a   Webb, Laura E ^a,d   Graham, Stephan A ^a   Hendrix, Marc S ^b   Badarch, Gombosuren ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ROCK BURSTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; DUCTILE STRUCTURES; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES;

FAULT SLIPS;

CRETACEOUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MESOZOIC; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRAIN PARTITIONING;

EAST GOBI BASIN; MONGOLIA;

EID: 84871244638     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.413     Document Type: Article

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