Jura, Alps and the boundary of the Adria subplate

Tectonophysics

Volumn 483, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 223-239

  Laubscher, Hans ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adria; Alps; Floating orogens; Jura; Nappes; Strain partitioning

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION; BROAD BANDS; EARLY MIOCENE; LATE MIOCENE; LATEST OLIGOCENE; OROGENS; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SPECIAL BOUNDARIES; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST SYSTEMS;

DOMES;

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MIOCENE; NAPPE; OROGENY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS;

ALPS; JURA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 76849090802     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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