The oman exotics: A key to the understanding of the neotethyan geodynamic evolution

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 209-238

  Pillevuit, Alain ^a   Marcoux, Jean ^b   Stampfli, Gérard ^a   Baud, Aymon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIL BFSH2   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atoll; Exotics; Hawasina nappes; Olistoliths; Rifting of the neotethys; Sultanate of oman; Tilted blocks

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; OLISTOLITH; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TETHYS;

OMAN;

EID: 0031433742     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09853111.1997.11105303     Document Type: Article

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