New morphostructural subdivision of the Western Carpathians: An approach integrating geodynamics into targeted morphometric analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 158-174

  Minár, Jozef ^a   Bielik, Miroslav ^a   Kováč̌, Michal ^a   Plašienka, Dušan ^a   Barka, Ivan ^b   Stankoviansky, Miloš ^a   Zeyen, Hermann ^c  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Geodynamics; Geomorphic history; Morphostructures; Neogene Quaternary; Targeted morphometric analysis; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIANS; GEOMORPHIC HISTORY; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOSTRUCTURES; NEO GENES;

GEODYNAMICS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; NEOGENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 79953699083     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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