TOPO-EUROPE: From Iberia to the Carpathians and analogues

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Cloetingh, Sierd ^a   Gallart, Josep ^b   de Vicente, Gerardo ^c   Matenco, Liviu ^a  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; CARPATHIANS; COMPLEX PROCESSES; DIRECT RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN HABITATS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESS; NATURAL HAZARD; NEAR-SURFACE; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; PROCESS-ORIENTED; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOLID EARTH; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL SCALE; SURFACE PROCESS; THERMO-MECHANICAL; TIME-SCALES;

EARTH SCIENCES; EROSION; FORECASTING; SEA LEVEL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EARTH (PLANET);

BASIN ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERE; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL HAZARD; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; THERMOMECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

CARPATHIANS; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79953693860     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.11.008     Document Type: Review

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