Brittle strain regime transition in the Afar depression: Implications for fault growth and seafloor spreading

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1087-1090

  Gupta, A ^a   Scholz, C H ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Afar; Brittle strain; Fault interaction; Fault scaling

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AFAR; CONTINENTAL RIFT; CRITICAL DENSITY; FAULT INTERACTIONS; FAULT POPULATION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REGIME TRANSITION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

FAULTING; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

AFAR; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84874965261     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)028<1087:BSRTIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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