Predicting orogenic wedge styles as a function of analogue erosion law and material softening

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4523-4543

  Mary, Baptiste C L ^a   Maillot, Bertrand ^a   Leroy, Yves M ^b  

^a Université de Cergy Pontoise   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

analogue experiment; critical coulomb wedge; fold and thrust belts; numerical simulation; orogenic wedges; sequential limit analysis

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL COULOMB WEDGE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; KINEMATIC APPROACHES; OROGENIC WEDGE; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SEQUENTIAL LIMIT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; TECTONICS;

EROSION;

ACCRETION; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84889071133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20262     Document Type: Article

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