Late evolution of the southern European Variscan belt: Exhumation of the lower crust in a context of oblique convergence

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 214-223

  Corsini, Michel ^a   Rolland, Yann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Late Carboniferous; Synconvergence exhumation; Transcurrent tectonics; Variscan belt

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; EXHUMATION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LOWER CRUST; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 63049116170     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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