Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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19 - Salt tectonics
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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- Structural Geology , pp. 371 - 394Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 2006, Implications of passive salt diapir kinematics for reservoir segmentation by radial and concentric faults. Marine and Petroleum Geology 23, 843–853.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1992, The rise of diapirs during thin-skinned extension. Marine and Petroleum Geology 9, 331–353.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1992, The fall of diapirs during thin-skinned extension. Marine and Petroleum Geology 9, 354–371.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 2006, Advance of allochthonous salt sheets in passive margins and orogens. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 90, 1535–1564.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 2004, Compressional salt tectonics (Angolan margin). Tectonophysics 382, 129–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 2005, Stratigraphic record of translation down ramps in a passive-margin salt detachment. Journal of Structural Geology 27, 889–911.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 2004, Origin of the salt valleys in the Canyonlands section of the Colorado Plateau Evaporite: dissolution collapse versus tectonic subsidence. Geomorphology 57, 423–435.CrossRefGoogle Scholar