Thick-skinned thrusting in the northern Tien Shan Foreland, Kazakhstan: Structural inheritance and polyphase deformation

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-42

  Kober, Martin ^a   Seib, Nadine ^a   Kley, Jonas ^a,b   Voigt, Thomas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; CENOZOIC; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULT SLIP; FOLDING; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOZOIC; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST; UPLIFT; BASEMENT ROCK; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; KINEMATICS; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE (GEOLOGY);

KAZAKHSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84887288370     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP377.7     Document Type: Article

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