Folded continental and oceanic nappes on the southern side of Monte Rosa (western Alps, Italy): Anatomy of a double collision suture

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Pleuger, Jan ^a   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^a   Jansen, Ekkehard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; NAPPE; OPHIOLITE; TECTONICS;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MONTE ROSA; PENNINE ALPS; WORLD;

SESIA;

EID: 27744501920     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001737     Document Type: Article

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