Salt diapirism driven by differential loading - Some insights from analogue modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 591, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-97

  Warsitzka, Michael ^a   Kley, Jonas ^b   Kukowski, Nina ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Differential loading; North german basin; Salt diapirism

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELLING; DIAPIRISM; INITIAL PERTURBATION; INTRA-CONTINENTAL BASINS; LATERAL PROPAGATION; NORTH GERMAN BASIN; OPTICAL IMAGE CORRELATION; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

BRITTLENESS; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SALT TECTONICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LOADING;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BRITTLE MEDIUM; DEFORMATION; DIAPIRISM; GEOACCUMULATION; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALT TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT;

NORTH GERMAN BASIN;

EID: 84875499296     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.018     Document Type: Article

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