Granitic pebbles in upper cretaceous red conglomerates of the Haţ eg Basin (Southern Carpathians, Romania): Geochemistry and provenance as clues in a tectonic controversy

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 389-395

  Berza, Tudor ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Basement exhumation; Danubian granitoids; Ha eg Basin; Maastrichtian conglomerates; Pebbles; Southern Carpathians

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; PEBBLE; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10344265517     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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