Late Quaternary folding in the Jura Mountains: Evidence from syn-erosional deformation of fluvial meanders

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-154

  Madritsch, Herfried ^a,b   Preusser, Frank ^c   Fabbri, Olivier ^b   Bichet, Vincent ^b   Schlunegger, Fritz ^c   Schmid, Stefan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MEANDER; OROGENY; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

DOUBS RIVER; JURA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77951700703     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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