Post-Variscan evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the European Cenozoic Rift System

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-112

  Ziegler, P A ^a   Schumacher, M E ^b   Dezes P ^a   van Wees, J D ^c   Cloetingh, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Netherlands Institute for Applied Geosciences TNO ^*  (Switzerland)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; LITHOSPHERE; RIFTING; SLAB; STEPHANIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33846036428     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.06     Document Type: Article

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