Kinematics of Jurassic rifting, mantle exhumation, and passive-margin formation in the Austroalpine and Penninic nappes (eastern Switzerland)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1120-1133

  Froitzneim, Nikolaus ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^b,c  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASYMMETRIC STRETCHING; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL ALLOCHTHON; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE; TRANSITION ZONES; CRETACEOUS AGE; LATE CRETACEOUS; PURE SHEAR; SWITZERLAND;

FAULT SLIPS; KINEMATICS;

ALLOCHTHONY; EXHUMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTING; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSITION ZONE; MANTLE EXHUMATION; PASSIVE MARGIN;

ITALY; LIGURIA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030463865     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1120:KOJRME>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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