The Elbe fault system in North Central Europe- a basement controlled zone of crustal weakness

Tectonophysics

Volumn 360, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 281-299

  Scheck, Magdalena ^a,b   Bayer, Ulf ^b   Otto, Volker ^b   Lamarche, Juliette ^b   Banka, Dirk ^d   Pharaoh, T Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d Naturwissenchaften e V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal boundary; Crustal structure; Deep seismic data; Elbe Fault System; Mid Polish Basin; North German Basin

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT ZONE; LOWER CRUST; PALEOSTRESS; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0036449443     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00357-8     Document Type: Article

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