Research Catalog

Title

Thrust fault-related folding / edited by K. McClay, J.H. Shaw, and J. Suppe.

Publication

Tulsa, Okla. : American Association of Petroleum Geologists, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McClay, K. R. (Kenneth R.)
• Shaw, J. H.
• Suppe, John.

Description

ix, 390 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Series Statement

AAPG memoir ; 94

Uniform Title

AAPG memoir ; 94.

Subjects

• Hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Structural traps (Petroleum geology)
• Plate tectonics
• Sediments (Geology)
• Faults (Geology)
• Thrust faults (Geology)
• Folds (Geology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Introduction to thrust fault-related folding -- Mass balance and thrusting in detachment folds -- Shortening histories in active detachment folds based on area-of-relief methods -- Multiple detachment folding in Pusht-e Kuh Arc, Zagros: role of mechanical stratigraphy -- Trishear: a review of kinematics, mechanics, and applications -- Layer-parallel shrotening templates associated with double-edge fault-propagation folding -- Folding mechanisms in a fault-propagation fold inferred from the analysis of unconformity angles: the Sant Llorenc growth structure (Pyrenees, Spain) -- Two contrasting kinematic styles of active folding above thrust ramps, Western Taiwan -- Active folding and blind thrust faulting induced by basin inversion processes, Inner California borderlands -- Cenozoic structure and tectonic evolution of the Kuqa Fold Belt, Southern Tianshan, China -- Kinematics of a hybrid thick-thin-skinned fold and thrust belt recorded in Neogene syntectonic wedge-top basins, Southern Central Andes between 35° and 35°S, Malargüe, Argentina -- Basement-involved contractional wedge structural styles: examples from the Hanna Basin, Wyoming -- Three-dimensional geometry and forward numerical modeling of the Sant Corneli Anticline (Southern Pyrenees, Spain) -- Two-dimensional analog modeling of fold and thrust belts: dynamic interactions with syncontractional sedimentation and erosion -- Fault-related folding in the deep waters of the Equatorial margin of Brazil -- The growth history of toe thrusts of the Niger Delta and the role of pore pressure.

ISBN

• 9780891813767
• 0891813764

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library