Tertiary palaeogeography and tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Northern and Southern Peri-Tethys platforms and the intermediate domains of the African-Eurasian convergent plate boundary zone

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 209-228

  Meulenkamp, Johan E ^a   Sissingh, Wim ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; Mediterranean; Middle East; North Africa; Palaeogeography; Tertiary; Western Central Asia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; EURASIAN PLATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

EID: 0038041042     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00319-5     Document Type: Article

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