Basin evolution of the northern part of the Northeast German Basin - Insights from a 3D structural model

Tectonophysics

Volumn 437, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Hansen, Martin Bak ^a   Scheck Wenderoth, Magdalena ^b   Hübscher, Christian ^a   Lykke Andersen, Holger ^c   Dehghani, Ali ^a   Hell, Benjamin ^a   Gajewski, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Backstripping; Basin modelling; Central European Basin System; Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution; Neotectonic; Northeast German Basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; MESOZOIC; NEOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

EID: 34248151495     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.01.010     Document Type: Article

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