Lithosphere folding: Primary response to compression? (from central Asia to Paris basin)

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1064-1083

  Cloetingh, S ^a   Burov, E ^b,d   Poliakov, A ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Direction de la Recherche   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; FOLDING; LITHOSPHERE;

EID: 0033502729     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900040     Document Type: Article

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