Pre-mesozoic alpine basements-their place in the European paleozoic framework

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 89-108

  von Raumer, Jürgen F ^a   Bussy, François ^b   Schaltegger, Urs ^c   Schulz, Bernhard ^d   Stampfli, Gérard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b Earth Sciences Institute (ISTE) Geopolis   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGINS; COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; JURASSIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC EVENTS; PALEO-TETHYS; PALEOZOIC; SILURIAN PERIOD; TRIASSIC; VARISCAN;

BUILDINGS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACTIVE MARGIN; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AVALONIA; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION;

VICIA;

EID: 84872356515     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30654.1     Document Type: Article

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