Subsidence analysis and quantitative basin modelling in the Styrian Basin (Pannonian Basin System, Austria)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 272, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 175-196

  Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F ^a   Lankreijer, Anco ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^b   Ebner, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Rheology; Styrian Basin; Subsidence; Tectonic modelling

Indexed keywords

BASIN DEVELOPMENT; RHEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRIA, STYRIAN BASIN;

EID: 0030780245     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00257-0     Document Type: Article

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