Permian-Triassic high thermal regime in the Alps: Result of late Variscan collapse or continental rifting? Validation by numerical modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Marotta, Anna Maria ^a   Spalla, Maria Iole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAMORPHISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; RIFTING;

EID: 36249018916     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002047     Document Type: Article

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