The Southern Urals. Decoupled evolution of the thrust belt and its foreland: A consequence of metamorphism and lithospheric weakening

Tectonophysics

Volumn 320, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 271-310

  Artyushkov, Eugene V ^a   Baer, Michael A ^a   Chekhovich, Peter A ^b   Mörner, Nils Axel ^c  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas   (Russian Federation)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collision; Crustal subsidence; Eclogitization; Lithospheric weakening; Mountain building; Urals

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; METAMORPHISM; THRUST;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033731178     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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