Fold-thrust styles in the Absaroka thrust sheet, Caribou National Forest area, Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-65

  Banerjee, Subhotosh ^a   Mitra, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detachment folds; Fault bend folds; Fold thrust belts; Structural mapping

Indexed keywords

MACROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL MAPPING; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MAPS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CROSS SECTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING;

ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644285062     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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