Initiation of subduction in the Alps: Continent or ocean?

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-178

  Stüwe, Kurt ^a   Schuster, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Austrian Geological Survey   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EUROPEAN ALPS; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MIDDLE JURASSIC; OCEANIC SUBDUCTION; PERMIAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; JURASSIC; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PERMIAN; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PLATE; TETHYS;

ALPS;

EID: 77950134169     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30528.1     Document Type: Article

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