About boudins and mullions in the Ardenne-Eifel area (Belgium, Germany)

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 79-91

  Kenis, Ilnes ^a,b   Sintubin, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ardenne; Boudinage; Devonian; Eifel; Geological heritage; Palaeozoic; Variscides

Indexed keywords

EID: 53049088594     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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