Thrust Tectonics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages xv-xv
Erosional control of active compressional orogens....Pages 1-18
Dynamic and kinematic growth and change of a Coulomb wedge....Pages 19-31
A developmental stage of a foreland belt....Pages 33-40
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
One-dimensional models for plane and non-plane power-law flow in shortening and elongating thrust zones....Pages 41-52
Centrifuge modelling of the propagation of thrust faults....Pages 53-69
Physical models of thrust wedges....Pages 71-81
Generation of curved fold-thrust belts: Insight from simple physical and analytical models....Pages 83-92
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Thrust faults in inverted extensional basins....Pages 93-104
Rates of folding and faulting determined from growth strata....Pages 105-121
Role of shear in fault-propagation folding....Pages 123-132
2-D reconstruction of thrust evolution using the fault-bend fold method....Pages 133-140
Kinematic models of deformation at an oblique ramp....Pages 141-154
Stress controls on fold thrust style....Pages 155-164
Kinematics of large-scale asymmetric buckle folds in overthrust shear: an example from the Helvetic nappes....Pages 165-173
Forelimb deformation in some natural examples of fault-propagation folds....Pages 175-180
The geometric evolution of foreland thrust systems....Pages 181-189
Some geometric problems of ramp-flat thrust models....Pages 191-200
The duplex model: Implications from a study of flexural-slip duplexes....Pages 201-208
Palaeomagnetic techniques applied to thrust belts....Pages 209-216
Evolution of crystalline thrust sheets in the internal parts of mountain chains....Pages 217-233
Front Matter....Pages N6-N6
Evolution of a continental collision belt: ECORS-Pyrenees crustal balanced cross-section....Pages 235-246
Thrusting and foreland basin evolution in the Southern Pyrenees....Pages 247-254
South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt: The role of foreland evaporitic levels in thrust geometry....Pages 255-264
Contrasting rotations within thrust sheets and kinematics of thrust tectonics as derived from palaeomagnetic data: an example from the Southern Pyrenees....Pages 265-275
Front Matter....Pages N7-N7
The Alps — a transpressive pile of peels....Pages 277-285
Structural evolution of the western Chartreuse fold and thrust system, NW French Subalpine chains....Pages 287-298
Kinematics of a transverse zone in the Southern Alps, Italy....Pages 299-310
Hangingwall geometry of overthrusts emanating from ductile decollements....Pages 311-318
The Venetian Alps thrust belt....Pages 319-324
Front Matter....Pages N9-N9
Thrust geometries, interferences and rotations in the Northwest Himalaya....Pages 325-342
Balanced and retrodeformed geological cross-section from the frontal Sulaiman Lobe, Pakistan: Duplex development in thick strata along the western margin of the Indian Plate....Pages 343-356
Front Matter....Pages N10-N10
The Monashee decollement of the southern Canadian Cordillera: a crustal-scale shear zone linking the Rocky Mountain Foreland belt to lower crust beneath accreted terranes....Pages 357-364
The Skeena fold belt: a link between the Coast Plutonic Complex, the Omineca belt and the Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt....Pages 365-375
Geometric evidence for synchronous thrusting in the southern Alberta and northwest Montana thrust belts....Pages 377-390
The analysis of fracture systems in subsurface thrust structures from the Foothills of the Canadian Rockies....Pages 391-405
Thrust tectonics and Cretaceous intracontinental shortening in southeast Alaska....Pages 407-417
Back Matter....Pages 419-447