The Intra-Alpine terrain: A Paleotethyan remnant in the Alpine Variscides

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-42

  Stampfli, Gérard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Exotic terrain; Paleotethys; S Europe; Variscides

Indexed keywords

MESOZOIC; PALAEOTETHYS; PALAEOZOIC; TERRANE ACCRETION; VARISCAN;

EUROPE;

EID: 0029729733     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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