An ancient ocean-continent transition in the Alps: The Totalp, Err-Platta, and Malenco units in the eastern Central Alps (Graubünden and northern Italy)

Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-146

  Manatschal, Gianreto ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^b   Desmurs, Laurent ^c   Bernoulli, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OPHIOLITE; PLATE BOUNDARY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0038757569     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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