Facies and basin architecture of the Late Carboniferous Salvan-Dorénaz continental basin (Western Alps, Switzerland/France)

Sedimentology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 675-697

  Capuzzo, Nicola ^a   Wetzel, Andreas ^a  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Basin fill history; Carboniferous; Drainage reversal; Fluvial sediments; Intramontane basin; Strike slip tectonics; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; CARBONIFEROUS; FACIES ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 3543089768     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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