Lateral variations in lithosphere strength in the Romanian Carpathians: Constraints on basin evolution

Tectonophysics

Volumn 272, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 269-290

  Lankreijer, Anco ^a   Mocanu, Victor ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Basin evolution; Carpathians; Lithosphere; Moesian platform; Pannonian basin; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BASIN DEVELOPMENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRENGTH; RHEOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ROMANIA, CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA, PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 0030787141     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00262-4     Document Type: Article

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