Build-up and dismembering of the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps

Tectonophysics

Volumn 272, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 97-124

  Linzer, Hans Gert ^a   Moser, Franz ^a   Nemes, Franz ^b   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a,c   Sperner, Blanka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Brittle tectonics; Fold thrust belt; Lateral extrusion; Strain trajectories

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LATERAL EXTRUSION; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

EUROPE, ALPS, NORTHERN CALCAREOUS ALPS;

EID: 0030734973     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00254-5     Document Type: Article

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