The complexity of 3D stress-state changes during compressional tectonic inversion at the onset of orogeny

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-69

  Van Noten, Koen ^a,b   Van Baelen, Hervé ^a   Sintubin, Manue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FAILURE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUID PRESSURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INVERSION TECTONICS; OROGENY; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS CHANGE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSITION ZONE;

ANDERSONIA;

EID: 84873019878     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP367.5     Document Type: Article

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