Tectonic processes in the Southern and Middle Urals: An overview

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 407-419

  Brown, D ^a   Puchkov, V ^b   Alvarez Marron, J ^a   Bea, F ^c   Perez Estaun, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CARBONIFEROUS; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTRUSION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOZOIC; PLATE MOTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; URALIDE OROGENY;

EURASIA; URALS;

EID: 33846054032     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.24     Document Type: Review

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