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Record Nr.

UNINA9910642922303321

Titolo

Sedimentation in oblique-slip mobile zones / / edited by Peter F. Ballance and Harold G. Reading

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Blackwell Scientific Publications, , 1980

©1980

ISBN

1-282-17195-X

9786612171956

1-4443-0373-2

1-4443-0374-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists, , 0141-3600 ; ; Number 4

Disciplina

551.304

Soggetti

Sedimentation and deposition

Faults (Geology) - Europe

Faults (Geology) - New Zealand

Faults (Geology) - California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Sedimentation in Oblique-slip Mobile Zones; Contents; Introduction; Characteristics and recognition of strike-slip fault systems; Analysis of pull-apart basin development produced by en echelon strike-slip faults; Basin development along the late Mesozoic and Cainozoic California margin: a plate tectonic margin of subduction, oblique subduction and transform tectonics; Evolution of a strike-slip fault-controlled basin, Upper Old Red Sandstone, Scotland; Late Caledonian (Devonian) basin formation, western Norway: signs of strike-slip tectonics during infilling

Deposits associated with a Hercynian to late Hercynian continental strike-slip system, Cantabrian Mountains, northern SpainStrike-slip related sedimentation in the Antalya complex, southwest Turkey; New Zealand and oblique-slip margins: tectonic development up to and during the Cainozoic; Quaternary sedimentation on the Hikurangi oblique-subduction and transform margin, New Zealand; The Makara



Basin: a Miocene slope-basin along the New Zealand sector of the Australian-Pacific obliquely convergent plate boundary

Late Cainozoic sedimentation and tectonics of the East Coast Deformed Belt, in Marlborough, New ZealandModels of sediment distribution in non-marine and shallow marine environments in oblique-slip fault zones; Offshore sedimentary basins at the southern end of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand