Eastern Variscan fold belt: Paleomagnetic evidence for oroclinal bending

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 871-874

  Tait, J A ^a   Bachtadse, V ^a   Soffel, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; GEOLOGY;

BOHEMIAN MASSIFS; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; REMAGNETIZATION; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRUCTURAL TRENDS; FOLD BELTS; LATE DEVONIAN;

MAGNETIZATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

BENDING; FOLD BELT; GEODYNAMICS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEVONIAN; OROCLINAL BENDING; PALAEOMAGNETISM; VARISCAN;

BELGIUM; CZECH REPUBLIC; GERMANY; PORTUGAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030429975     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0871:EVFBPE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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