The syn- and post-collisional evolution of the Romanian Carpathian foredeep: New constraints from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and paleostress analyses

Tectonophysics

Volumn 473, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 457-465

  Vasiliev, Iuliana ^a,b   Maţenco, Liviu ^b,c   Krijgsman, Wout ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; Carpathians; Miocene; Pliocene; Romania

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARPATHIANS; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; ROMANIA;

DEFORMATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRESSES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; FOREARC BASIN; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRESS FIELD;

CARPATHIAN FOREDEEP; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650455885     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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