Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-117

  Schmid, Stefan M ^a   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^a   Kissling, Eduard ^b   Schuster, Ralf ^c  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alps; Collisional orogen; Geophysical transects; Paleogeography; Structural geology; Tectonic map; Tectonics; Tectono metamorphic evolution

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TETHYS;

EID: 3242878572     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-004-1113-x     Document Type: Article

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