The significance of bent mountain belts
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Mountain belts, also called orogens, are the factories where stable continental crust isoriginated. They run along thousands of kilometres on the Earths surface and depict an almost lineargeometry, occasionally interrupted by curved tracts. We search the importance of those curved tracts inthe mountain belts, if they constitute a tectonic structure by themselves and, if so, what is its relevance.The relevance of the curved mountain belts is of timely importance in understanding whether they arecaused by crustal or lithospheric processes, if they are the answer to sudden stress changes, if theyprovide efficient pathways for fluid circulation in the crust and, fundamentally, what processes causethem.
Source: Gredos (University of Salamanca)
Language: English
Subfield: Geology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1595277281