Paleozoic evolution of the External Crystalline Massifs of the Western Alps

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 253-265

  Guillot, Stéphane ^a   Ménot, René Pierre ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Collision; External Crystalline Massifs; Strike slip fault; Subduction; Suture zone; Variscan belt

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OBDUCTION; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 63049125739     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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