A restored section of the "southern Variscan realm" across the Corsica-Sardinia microcontinent

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 224-238

  Rossi, Philippe ^a   Oggiano, Giacomo ^b   Cocherie, Alain ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corsica; Sardinia; Southern Variscan realm; Variscan orogenic belt

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; SUTURE ZONE;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 63049113628     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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