Late orogenic rebound and oblique Alpine convergence: New constraints from subsidence analysis of the Austrian Molasse basin

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 58, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 214-223

  Genser, Johann ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd A P L ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

basin inversion; delamination; flexural basin; surface uplift

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN FILL; CONVERGENCE; DELAMINATION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSIDENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPLIFT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOLASSE BASIN;

EID: 34250367536     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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