[en] Yakeng anticline illustrates the importance of working in the thickness domain when interpreting detachment folds. Measure- ments in the thickness domain show that Yakeng has 1.2 km shorten- ing above a basal two levels of major detachment, basal diapirism, basement folding, and a 2.4-km-thick growth sequence.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Hubert, Aurelia ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Géomorphologie
Suppe, J.
Wang, X.
Jia, C. Z.
Language :
English
Title :
Yaken detachment fold, Southern Tianshan, China
Publication date :
2004
Journal title :
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Atlas
Publisher :
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Special issue title :
Seismic Interpretation of Contractional Fault related Folds
