Regional brittle extension in Quaternary sediments of Lanslebourg (Haute-Maurienne valley, western Alps)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 215-223

  Champagnac, Jean Daniel ^a,b   Delacou, Bastien ^a   Tricart, Pierre ^c   Sue, Christian ^a   Burkhard, Martin ^a   Allanic, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Extension; Maurienne; Neotectonics; Normal faults; Peri glacial environment; Quaternary sediments; Vanoise; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEGLACIATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MORAINE; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE-SAVOIE; MAURIENNE; RHONE-ALPES; SAVOIE; SAVOY ALPS; VANOISE MASSIF; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

SCHISTES;

EID: 33749446245     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.177.4.215     Document Type: Article

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