The Schneeberg Normal Fault Zone: Normal faulting associated with Cretaceous SE-directed extrusion in the Eastern Alps (Italy/Austria)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 401, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 143-166

  Söva, Helmuth ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^b   Thöni, Martin ^b   Thiede, Rasmus ^c   Habler, Gerlinde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eastern Alps; Eo Alpine; Exhumation; Extrusion; High pressure rocks

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXHUMATION; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20444370630     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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