A thin erogenic wedge upon thick foreland lithosphere and the missing foreland basin

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 314-325

  Garfunkel, Z ^a   Greiling, R O ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collisional orogen; Concave orogenic wedge; Lithospheric flexure; Modelling tectonic loads; Proforeland basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749138076     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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