Tectonics and sedimentation during convergence of the ALCAPA and Tisza-Dacia continental blocks: The Pienide nappe emplacement and its foredeep (N. Romania)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 317-334

  Tischler, Matthias ^a,d   Matenco, L ^b   Filipescu, S ^c   Groger H R ^a,d   Wetzel, A ^a   Fugenschuh B ^e  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

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

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BLOCK ROTATION; CONVERGENCE; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEPOCENTER; EMPLACEMENT; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; NAPPE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC WEDGE; TECTONICS; THRUST;

DACIC BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TISZA BASIN; TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN;

EID: 51249123094     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.15     Document Type: Article

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