3D stratigraphic and structural synthesis of the Dannemarie basin (Upper Rhine Graben)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 433-442

  Le Carlier de Veslud, Christian ^a   Bourgeois, Olivier ^a   Diraison, Marc ^a   Ford, Mary ^a  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

3D structural model; Dannemarie Basin; Rhine graben; Rift

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRABEN; RIFT ZONE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 32144436732     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.5.433     Document Type: Article

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