Simulation of Foreland Basin Stratigraphy using a diffusion model of mountain belt uplift and erosion: An example from the central Alps, Switzerland

Tectonics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 599-620

  Sinclair, H D ^a   Coakley, B J ^a   Allen, P A ^a   Watts, A B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; STRATIGRAPHY; THRUSTING; UPLIFT;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS;

EID: 0026269343     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/90TC02507     Document Type: Article

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