Thick-skinned versus thin-skinned thrusting: Rheology controlled thrust propagation in the Variscan collisional belt (The southeastern Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic - Austria)

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1389-1413

  Fritz, Harald ^a   Dallmeyer, R David ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; RHEOLOGY; THICK SKINNED TECTONICS; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS; THRUSTING; VARISCAN;

AUSTRIA, BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CZECH REPUBLIC, BOHEMIA, BOHEMIAN MASSIF;

EID: 0030405206     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC01098     Document Type: Article

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