Lithospheric weakening during "retroforeland" basin formation: Tectonic evolution of the central South Alpine foredeep

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-142

  Bertotti, Giovanni ^a   Picotti, Vincenzo ^b,c   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; SUBDUCTION;

EUROPE, ALPS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BASIN FORMATION; CRUSTAL LEVELS; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; PLATE CURVATURE; PRE-CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

TECTONICS;

EID: 0031845679     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC02066     Document Type: Article

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