Correlations between fluid composition and deep-seated structural style in the footwall of the Simplon low-angle normal fault, Switzerland

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 715-718

  Wawrzyniec, Tim ^a   Selverstone, Jane ^a   Axen, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALOGY;

BRITTLE FAILURES; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FLUID COMPOSITION; FLUID PRESSURES; LOWER PRESSURES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURAL STYLES; WETTING CHARACTERISTICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

FLUID COMPOSITION; FLUID INCLUSION; MYLONITE; NORMAL FAULT; TECTONICS;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84879881906     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0715:CBFCAD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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