Laboratory experiments of slab break-off and slab dip reversal: Insight into the Alpine Oligocene reorganization

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 267-273

  Regard, Vincent ^a,b   Faccenna, Claudio ^c   Bellier, Olivier ^b   Martinod, Joseph ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; OROGENY; RUPTURE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 48249105537     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00815.x     Document Type: Article

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