Mountain building and exhumation processes through time: Inferences from nature and models

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 188-194

  Gapais, Denis ^a   Cagnard, Florence ^b   Gueydan, Frédéric ^a   Barbey, Pierre ^c   Ballèvre, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DECOMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; EROSION; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; P-T CONDITIONS; PHANEROZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN;

EID: 66349084991     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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