Late Cenozoic burial history and dynamics of the Northern Caucasus molasse basin: Implications for foreland basin modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 313, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 219-241

  Ershov, Andrei V ^a,b   Brunet, Marie Françoise ^b   Korotaev, Maxim V ^a   Nikishin, Anatoly M ^a   N Bolotov, Sergei ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Collision; Flexural model; Foreland basin; Gravity; Lithospheric root; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CENOZOIC; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; MOLASSE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033544463     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00197-3     Document Type: Article

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