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Thick-skinned and thin-skinned styles of continental contraction
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O. Adrian Pfiffner
O. Adrian Pfiffner
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Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
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Published:January 01, 2006
Continental crust subjected to horizontal contraction in convergent settings deforms in a variety of styles. In many instances, it is useful to consider the deforming crustal sections in terms of crystalline basement rocks underlying incipiently undeformed sedimentary strata. Three deformation styles are commonly found in such settings. The structural style referred to as thin-skinned tectonics encompasses a stack of thrust sheets composed of non- or weakly metamorphic sedimentary rocks. The associated thrust faults usually level off in a mechanically weak décollement horizon along which a substantial amount of displacement occurs in the course of the formation of the fold-and-thrust belt....
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Styles of Continental Contraction
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414
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- Alice Springs Orogeny
- Alps
- Andes
- Appalachians
- Asia
- Australasia
- Australia
- basement tectonics
- Caledonides
- Central Europe
- classification
- compression tectonics
- continental crust
- contraction
- crust
- definition
- Europe
- faults
- fold and thrust belts
- Great Britain
- Himalayas
- Jura Mountains
- nappes
- North America
- North American Cordillera
- orogenic belts
- Paleozoic
- plate collision
- plate convergence
- plate tectonics
- review
- Rocky Mountains
- Scotland
- South America
- Swiss Alps
- Switzerland
- tectonics
- thick-skinned tectonics
- thin-skinned tectonics
- thrust faults
- U. S. Rocky Mountains
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Western Europe
- Wind River Range
- Wyoming
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