The variscan orogeny in the saxo-thuringian zone - Heterogenous overprint of Cadomian/Paleozoic Peri-Gondwana crust

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 423, Issue , 2007, Pages 153-172

  Kroner, U ^a   Hahn, T ^a   Romer, Rolf L ^b   Linnemann, Ulf ^c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

European Variscides; Plate tectonics; Saxony; Tectonometamorphic evolution; Thuringia

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EUROPEAN VARISCIDES; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; REGIONAL DEFORMATIONS; SAXONY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; TECTONOMETAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; THURINGIA;

TOOLS;

ACCRETION; CARBONIFEROUS; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST; DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN; FLYSCH; FOLDING; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; TRANSPRESSION; ZONE;

GERMANY; SAXONY; THURINGIA;

EID: 75749116021     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2423(06)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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