Late orogenic vertical movements in the Carpathian Bend Zone - Seismic constraints on the transition zone from orogen to foredeep

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-545

  Leever, Karen A ^a,b   Matenco, L ^a,b   Bertotti, G ^a,b   Cloetingh, S ^a,b   Drijkoningen, G G ^a,c  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLDING; OROGENY; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845405921     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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