3D crustal architecture of the Alps-Apennines join - A new view on seismic data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 349-363

  Schumacher, M E ^a   Laubscher, H P ^a  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELLING;

ITALY, ALPS; ITALY, APENNINES;

EID: 0030430180     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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