Late Neogene structural inversion around the northern Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam: Effects from right-lateral displacement across the Red River fault zone

Tectonics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 290-312

  Fyhn, Michael B W ^a   Phach, Phung V ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Institute for Marine Geology and Geophysics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

marine seismics; plate tectonics; submarine tectonics and volcanism

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; SETTLING TANKS; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; EXTRUSION DISPLACEMENT; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MARINE SEISMICS; NORMAL FAULTING; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK; SUBMARINE TECTONICS AND VOLCANISMS;

FAULTING;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DISPLACEMENT; EXTRUSION; FAULT ZONE; INVERSION TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; NEOGENE; PLATE TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

BACH LONG VI; GULF OF TONKIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RED RIVER FAULT ZONE; SONG HONG BASIN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; VIET NAM;

EID: 85027948891     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003674     Document Type: Article

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