Continental collision with finite indenter strength: 2. European Eastern Alps

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-21

  Robl, Jörg ^a   Stüwe, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONVERGENCE; GPS; PLATE MOTION;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 27744501921     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001741     Document Type: Article

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