Early Tertiary evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin of the Swiss Alps and adjoining areas

Basin Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 549-567

  Kempf, Oliver ^a   Pfiffner, O Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 11044226283     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2004.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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