Tectono-thermal regimes and lithosphere behaviour in the External Dacides in the Upper Triassic and Jurassic Tethyan opening (Romanian Carpathians)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 167-188

  Badescu, Doru ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Rifting; Romanian carpathians; Sedimentary basins; Shear; Thermal evolution

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TETHYS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 0031414060     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00218-7     Document Type: Article

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