Convergence in a thermally softened thick crust: Variscan intracontinental tectonics in Iberian plate rocks

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 393-400

  Llana Fúnez, Sergio ^a   Marcos, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549037211     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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