Gondwana-derived microcontinents - The constituents of the Variscan and Alpine collisional orogens

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 7-22

  von Raumer, Jürgen F ^a   Stampfli, Gérard M ^b   Bussy, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine; Collisional orogens; Gondwana derived terranes; Plate tectonic terminology; Polymetamorphic basement relics; Variscan

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 0038373908     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00015-5     Document Type: Article

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