Different modes of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary inversion in the North German and Polish basins

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 94, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 782-798

  Mazur, Stanislaw ^a,c   Scheck Wenderoth, Magdalena ^a   Krzywiec, Piotr ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Central European Basin System; Continental rift; Mid PolishTrough; North German Basin; Permo Mesozoic; Salt; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; INVERSION TECTONICS; TERTIARY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; POLAND;

EID: 31144439963     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-005-0016-z     Document Type: Article

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