Late Miocene-Quaternary volcanism, tectonics and drainage system evolution in the East Carpathians, Romania

Tectonophysics

Volumn 410, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 111-136

  Fielitz, Werner ^a   Seghedi, Ioan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

East Carpathians; Foreland; Neotectonics; River drainage; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE NETWORK; MIOCENE; QUATERNARY; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 29744460593     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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