Uplift and late orogenic deformation of the Central European Variscan belt as revealed by sediment provenance and structural record in the Carboniferous foreland basin of western Poland

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-64

  Mazur, S ^a,f   Aleksandrowski, P ^a   Turniak, K ^a   Krzeminski L ^b   Mastalerz, K ^c   Gorecka Nowak A ^a   Kurowski, L ^a   Krzywiec, P ^b   Zelazniewicz A ^d   Fanning, M C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Institute of Geological Sciences PAN ^*  (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Kitson House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Detrital zircon dating; Erosion; Geochemistry; Strike slip faulting; Tectonics; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DATING METHOD; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; OROGENY; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TURBIDITE; UPLIFT;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; POLAND;

EID: 77951284094     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0367-3     Document Type: Article

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