Late carboniferous foreland basin formation and Early Carboniferous stretching in Northwestern Europe: Inferences from quantitative subsidence analyses in the Netherlands

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-395

  Kombrink, Henk ^a,b   Leever, Karen A ^c   Van Wees, Jan Diederik ^b,c   Van Bergen, Frank ^b   David, Petra ^b   Wong, Theo E ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; FORELAND BASIN; GEOMETRY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUBSIDENCE;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRABANT MASSIF; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 51249099444     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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