Variations in lithospheric structure across the margin of Baltica in central Europe and the role of the variscan and carpathian orogenies

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 341-356

  Grad, Marek ^a   Guterch, Aleksander ^b   Randy Keller, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Baltica; Carpathians; Crustal structure; Lithospheric structure; Pannonian basin; Seismic refraction; Transeuropean suture zone

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REFRACTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ALPS; BALTICA; CARPATHIANS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PANNONIAN BASIN; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EURASIAN PLATE; FOREARC BASIN; HEAT FLOW; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SUTURE ZONE; TERTIARY; TROUGH;

CARPATHIAN FOREDEEP; CENTRAL EUROPE; EAST EUROPEAN CRATON; PANNONIAN BASIN; POLAND; TEISSEYRE-TORNQUIST ZONE; TRANS-EUROPEAN SUTURE ZONE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 54949106284     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(17)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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