Heavy mineral provenance and paleocurrent data of the Upper Cretaceous Gosau succession of the Apuseni Mountains (Romania)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-39

  Schuller, Volker ^a   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apuseni Mts; Eastern Alps; Gosau succession; Heavy minerals; Paleocurrent directions

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; HEAVY MINERAL; PALEOCURRENT; PROVENANCE;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645789313     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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