Feasibility of double slab breakoff (cretaceous and tertiary) during the alpine convergence

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-127

  Von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ^a   Davies, J Huw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austroalpine; Magmatism; Metamorphism; Orogenesis; Penninics; Slab Breakoff; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CONVERGENCE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; SLAB BREAKOFF; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY;

EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0029775338     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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