Lateral termination of the north-directed Alpine orogeny and onset of westward escape in the Western Alpine arc: Structural and sedimentary evidence from the external zone

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Dumont, Thierry ^a   Simon Labric, Thibaud ^b   Authemayou, Christine ^b   Heymes, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; EROSION; EXTRUSION; FLOORS; PRISMS; SUBMARINES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACTIVE STRUCTURES; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; DIRECTED PROPAGATION; EARLY OLIGOCENE; FLEXURAL BASINS; FORELAND BASIN; INTERNAL ZONES; LATERAL EXTRUSION; MESOZOIC; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC WEDGE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SUBMARINE SLOPES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; EROSION; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 80053363500     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002836     Document Type: Article

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