The Western Mediterranean extensional basins and the Alpine orogen

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 109-112

  Doglioni, Carlo ^a   Gueguen, Erwan ^a   Sàbat, Francesc ^b   Fernandez, Manuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL BASIN; EXTENSIONAL BASINS; FAULT; OROGENY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE TROUGHS; SUBSIDENCE; TROUGH;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031422813     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1997.d01-18.x     Document Type: Article

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