Recognizing episodic lithospheric thinning along a convergent plate margin: The example of the Early Oligocene Alps

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 81-98

  Beltrando, Marco ^a   Lister, Gordon S ^a   Rosenbaum, Gideon ^b   Richards, Simon ^c   Forster, Marnie A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barrovian metamorphism; Central Alps; Extensional tectonics; Orogenesis; Tectonic associations; Tectonic mode switches

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLDING; LITHOSPHERE; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATIZATION; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PARTIAL MELTING; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS;

EID: 78650177734     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.09.001     Document Type: Review

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