Neogene tectonic evolution of the southern and eastern Carpathians constrained by paleomagnetism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 374-387

  Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a   Vasiliev, Iuliana ^a   Langereis, Cor G ^a   Krijgsman, Wout ^a   Panaiotu, Cristian ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Geodynamics; Neogene; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; MIDDLE MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; TECTONIC ROTATIONS;

DEFORMATION; EARTH SCIENCES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; SEDIMENTS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

BLOCK ROTATION; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CARPATHIANS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22144442038     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.04.030     Document Type: Article

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