Slab behaviour and its surface expression: New insights from gravity modelling in the SE-Carpathians

Tectonophysics

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 51-84

  Sperner, Blanka ^a   Ioane, Dumitru ^b   Lillie, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basins; Carpathians; Gravity anomalies; Isostasy; Subduction; Vertical movements

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ISOSTASY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1942475338     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.12.008     Document Type: Article

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