A new structural model for the SW Irish Variscides The Variscan front of the NW European Rhenohercynian

Tectonophysics

Volumn 309, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 197-209

  Bresser, Georg ^a   Walter, Roland ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Irish Variscides; Thin skinned; Transpression; Variscan fold and thrust belt; Variscan front

Indexed keywords

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032710226     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00139-0     Document Type: Article

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