The late extension in the inner western Alps: A synthesis along the south-Pelvoux transect

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 299-310

  Tricart, Pierre ^a   Lardeaux, Jean Marc ^b   Schwartz, Stéphane ^c   Sue, Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boudinage; Denudation; Exhumation; Extension; Geodesy; Normal faulting; Seismicity; Thermochronology; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BOUDINAGE; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FOLDING; GEODESY; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST;

ALPS; BRIANCONNAIS ZONE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

SCHISTES;

EID: 33845497736     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.177.6.299     Document Type: Article

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