On the role and importance of orogen-parallel and -perpendicular extension, transcurrent shearing, and backthrusting in the Monte Rosa nappe and the Southern Steep Belt of the Alps (Penninic zone, Switzerland and Italy)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 251-280

  Pleuger, Jan ^a   Nagel, Thorsten J ^a   Walter, Jens M ^b   Jansen, Ekkehard ^a   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ECLOGITE; EURASIAN PLATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLIATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; OROGENY; OVERTURN; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST; UPLIFT;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MONTE ROSA; PENNINE ALPS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ADULA;

EID: 51349123150     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.13     Document Type: Article

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