Accretion of a rifted passive margin: The Late Paleozoic Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt (Middle European Variscides)

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-91

  Oncken, O ^a,c   Von Winterfeld, C ^a,b   Dittmar, U ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFT ZONE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033015111     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC02763     Document Type: Article

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