The oceanic Forno unit (Rhetic Alps): Field relations, geochemistry and paleogeographic setting

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-124

  Puschnig, André R ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Austroalpine Penninic boundary; Continent ocean transition; Forno unit; Ophiolite sequence

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TETHYS;

ITALY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033849661     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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