Extensional basins of the former soviet union - Structure, basin formation mechanisms and subsidence history

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 251-285

  Lobkovsky, L I ^a   Cloetingh, S ^b   Nikishin, A M ^c   Volozh, Yu A ^a   Lankreijer, A C ^b   Belyakov, S L ^d   Groshev, V G ^e   Fokin, P A ^c   Milanovsky, E E ^c   Pevzner, L A ^f   Gorbachev, V I ^f   Korneev, M A ^g  

^a Krasnopresnenskiy Ecological Fund   (Russian Federation)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e SovFransGeo   (Russian Federation)

^f Stt Sci Indust Entpr S   (Russian Federation)

^g Inst Geol Exploitation C   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Extensional basins; Lithospheric tectonics; Rheology; Stress fields; Subsidence modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001615644     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00193-X     Document Type: Article

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