Upper cretaceous gosau deposits of the Apuseni Mountains (Romania) - Similarities and differences to the Eastern Alps

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-145

  Schuller, Volker ^a   Frisch, Wolfgang ^b   Danišík, Martin ^b,c   Dunkl, István ^d   Melinte, Mihaela Carmen ^e  

^a OMV Group   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

Author keywords

Apuseni Mountains; Basin modeling; Eastern Alps; Fission track dating; Gosau basin

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; MESOZOIC; MICROPLATE; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TRENCH; TURONIAN;

ALPS; APUSENI MOUNTAINS; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349989503     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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