Neotectonic extrusion of the Eastern Alps: Constraints from U/Th dating of tectonically damaged speleothems

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 483-486

  Plan, Lukas ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^b   Spötl, Christoph ^c   Decker, Kurt ^b   Boch, Ronny ^c   Kramers, Jan ^d  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AUSTRIA; CONTINUOUS GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EUROPEAN ALPS; EVENT LAYER; FAULT ZONE; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LATERAL EXTRUSION; MIOCENE TIME; NEOTECTONICS; OLIGOCENE; PANNONIAN BASIN; SEISMICITY DATA; SLIP SYSTEM; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TECTONIC EVENTS; TIME FRAME;

CAVES; EXTRUSION;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; GPS; HIATUS; KARST; LAST GLACIAL; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; OLIGOCENE; SEISMICITY; SPELEOTHEM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; EASTERN ALPS; PANNONIAN BASIN; STYRIA;

EID: 77955971925     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30854.1     Document Type: Article

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