Backward modeling of the rifting kinematics in the Upper Rhine Graben: Insights from an elastic-perfect contact law on the restoration of a multi-bloc domain

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 751-757

  Cornu, Tristan G M ^a   Bertrand, Guillaume ^b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRABEN; KINEMATICS; SEISMOTECTONICS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN; WORLD;

EID: 27844496105     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-004-0452-1     Document Type: Article

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