The Variscan tectonic inheritance of the Upper Rhine Graben: Evidence of reactivations in the Lias, Late Eocene-Oligocene up to the recent

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 305-325

  Edel, Jean Bernard ^a   Schulmann, K ^a   Rotstein, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b US Israel Bi ational Science Foundation   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black Forest; Lias; Odenwald; Reactivation; Rhine Graben; Tertiary; Variscan; Vosges; Wrench fault

Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OUTCROP; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERTIARY; WRENCH FAULT;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; ODENWALD; RHINE GRABEN; VOSGES [(MNR) FRANCE]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947542713     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-006-0092-8     Document Type: Article

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