New insights into the basement of the Transylvanian Depression (Romania)

Lithos

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 172-191

  Ionescu, Corina ^a,b   Hoeck, Volker ^a,b   Tomek, Cestmir ^b   Koller, Friedrich ^c   Balintoni, Ioan ^a   Beşuţiu, Lucian ^d  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Boninites; Intra oceanic subduction; Island arc volcanics; Mesozoic; Transylvanian Depression

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BACKARC BASIN; BASEMENT ROCK; BONINITE; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; DEEP DRILLING; GAS FIELD; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; METHANE; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRANSYLVANIA;

EID: 59849112322     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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