Analysis of Pull-Apart Basin Development Produced by En Echelon Strike-Slip Faults

Sedimentation in Oblique-Slip Mobile Zones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-41

  Rodgers, Donald A ^a  

^a Cities Service Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of pull apart basin development en echelon strike slip faults; Elastic dislocation theory; Equations of Chinnery infinitesimal strain theory; Pull apart basins, including Dead Sea and Death Valley; Right stepping en echelon right lateral strike slip faults; San Jacinto fault in California pull apart basins

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BASIN DEVELOPMENT; CALIFORNIA; DEAD SEA; ELASTIC DISLOCATION THEORY; RIGHT LATERAL STRIKE SLIP FAULT; STRAIN THEORY;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84955357354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303735.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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