Late Caledonian (Devonian) Basin Formation, Western Norway: Signs of Strike-Slip Tectonics during Infilling

Sedimentation in Oblique-Slip Mobile Zones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-103

  Steel, Ron ^a   Gloppen, Tor Gunnar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Devonian faulting and Californian Holocene faulting, being analogous; Fanglomerate, containing augengneiss; Late Caledonian (Devonian) basin formation signs of strike slip tectonics; Lateral migration, resulting in upwards fining; Solund and Haasteinen Basins, resulting from normal faulting

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PETROLOGY; PILES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BASIN FORMATION; FANGLOMERATE, CONTAINING AUGENGNEISS; HOLOCENES; LATERAL MIGRATION; NORMAL FAULTING;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84875373440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303735.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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