Seismicity wedge beneath the Upper Rhine Graben due to backwards Alpine push?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 428, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 49-64

  Edel, Jean Bernard ^a   Whitechurch, Hubert ^a   Diraison, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Normal fault; Rhine Graben; Seismicity; Thrust

Indexed keywords

DOME; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOHO; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 33751070587     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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