The evolution of the Danube gateway between Central and Eastern Paratethys (SE Europe): Insight from numerical modelling of the causes and effects of connectivity between basins and its expression in the sedimentary record

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 175-195

  Leever, K A ^a   Matenco, L ^a   Garcia Castellanos, D ^b   Cloetingh, S A P L ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Numerical modelling; Paleogeography; Sedimentary basins

Indexed keywords

3D CODES; ACCOMMODATION SPACE; BACK-ARC; CARPATHIANS; CONNECTIVITY; DANUBE RIVERS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ERODIBILITY; LAKE LEVELS; LATE MIOCENE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINIAN; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; NEO GENES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OPEN WATER; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PANNONIAN BASIN; PARATETHYS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SUBBASINS; SURFACE PROCESS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; UPLIFT RATE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RIVERS;

BACKARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; ISOSTASY; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

DACIC BASIN; DANUBE RIVER; PANNONIAN BASIN; ROMANIA;

PARATETHYS;

EID: 79953730303     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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