FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS ABOVE THRUSTS WITH CONSTANT DIP Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Previous models of fault-propagation folds have been extended to include the case where folding initiates above a thrust ramp of constant dip. The model may be useful in analyses of fold-thrust structures in thin- and thick-skinned compressional terrains. It may be most applicable to fault-propagation folds that develop as a fault propagates from a thick, massive, brittle unit into a thinly layered, anisotropic unit. 1990.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

  • CHESTER, J. S., & CHESTER, F. M.

citation count

  • 95

complete list of authors

  • CHESTER, JS||CHESTER, FM

publication date

  • January 1990