Architecture and tectonic evolution of nonvolcanic margins: Present-day Galicia and ancient Adria

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1099-1119

  Manatschal, Gianreto ^a,b   Bernoulli, Daniel ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033502313     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900041     Document Type: Article

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