Triassic metasediments in the internal Dinarides (Kopaonik area, southern Serbia): Stratigraphy, paleogeographic and tectonic significance

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-109

  Schefer, Senecio ^a   Egli, Daniel ^a,b   Missoni, Sigrid ^c   Bernoulli, Daniel ^a,b   Fügenschuh, Bernhard ^d   Gawlick, Hans Jürgen ^c   Jovanović, Divna ^e   Krystyn, Leopold ^f   Lein, Richard ^f   Schmid, Stefan ^a,g   Sudar, Milan ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e Geological Institute of Serbia   (Serbia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Conodonts; Dinarides; Kopaonik; Serbia; Stratigraphy; Triassic

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONODONT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; METASEDIMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIASSIC;

ALPS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; KOPAONIK; SERBIA;

ANISIA;

EID: 77952051579     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-010-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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