Orogenic mass transfer and reflection seismic patterns - Evidence from DEKORP sections across the European variscides (central Germany)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 286, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 47-61

  Oncken, Onno ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion; Mass transfer; Orogeny; Plate collision; Reflectivity; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

OROGENIC WEDGE MODEL; VARISCAN OROGENY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031817088     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00254-0     Document Type: Article

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