Alpine and Caledonide tectonics-a brief comparative study

GFF

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 237-24

  Milnes, Alan Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alps; Caledonides; Collisional orogenesis; Crustal root; Gravity tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000244444     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035899801202237     Document Type: Article

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