Balancing cross sections with kinematic constraints: The Dolomites (northern Italy)

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 527-545

  Schönborn, Gregor ^a,b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ITALY;

EID: 0344564158     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900018     Document Type: Article

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