The Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Greater Caucasus

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 277-289

  Saintot, Aline ^a,b   Brunet, Marie Françoise ^c   Yakovlev, Fedor ^d   Sébrier, Michel ^c   Stephenson, Randell ^a   Ershov, Andrei ^e   Chalot Prat, Françoise ^f   McCann, Tommy ^g  

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

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f CRPG CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; INVERSION TECTONICS; MESOZOIC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; UPLIFT;

CAUCASUS; EURASIA;

EID: 33846093519     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.16     Document Type: Review

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