Fault displacement-distance relationships as indicators of contractional fault-related folding style

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-251

  Hughes, Amanda N ^a   Shaw, John H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT PROFILES; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS; FAULT-RELATED FOLDING; KINEMATIC BEHAVIORS; MODEL-BASED PREDICTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA;

KINEMATICS;

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; RECORD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ARGENTINA; CHINA; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; SICHUAN BASIN; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 84896900033     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/05311312006     Document Type: Article

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