Complex fault-fold interactions during the growth of the Jabal Qusaybah anticline at the western tip of the Salakh Arch, Oman

Tectonics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 488-509

  Storti, F ^a   Balsamo, F ^a   Clemenzi, L ^a   Mozafari, M ^b   Al Kindy, M H N ^c   Solum, J ^d   Swennen, R ^b   Taberner, C ^d   Tueckmantel, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

fault fold interaction; faulting; folding; positive fault inversion; salakh arch; vein

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; FAULTING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

COMPLEX DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT INVERSIONS; FOLDING; LAYER PARALLEL SHORTENINGS; POSITIVE INVERSION; VEIN;

FAULT SLIPS;

ANTICLINE; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FOLD; FOLDING; GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

OMAN; OMAN MOUNTAINS;

ARA;

EID: 84927645217     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003725     Document Type: Article

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