Indenter growth in analogue models of Alpine-type deformation

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-128

  Bonini, Marco ^a   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^b   Talbot, Christopher J ^b   Boccaletti, Mario ^c   Milnes, Alan G ^d,e,f  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e GEA Consulting   (Sweden)

^f GEA Consulting   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033050710     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC90008     Document Type: Article

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