Early to mid tertiary crustal extension in the central alps: The turba mylonite zone (Eastern Switzerland)

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 329-340

  Nievergelt, Peter ^a   Liniger, Markus ^a,d   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^b   Mählmann, Rafael Ferreiro ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^c Mineralogisch Petrographisches Inst   (Switzerland)

^d GEOTEST AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSION; FAULT; MYLONITE; NAPPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS, TURBA MYLONITE ZONE;

EID: 0029729647     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/93TC02312     Document Type: Article

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