Main Uralian Thrust and Main Uralian Normal Fault: Non-extensional Palaeozoic high-P rock exhumation, oblique collision, and normal faulting in the Southern Urals

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 158-162

  Echtler, Helmut P ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENIC WEDGE; SUBDUCTION; THRUST;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, URALS;

EID: 0031390958     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1997.d01-27.x     Document Type: Article

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