The Alpine Tethys rifted margins: Reconciling old and new ideas to understand the stratigraphic architecture of magma-poor rifted margins

Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 174-196

  Masini, Emmanuel ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^a   Mohn, Geoffroy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine Tethys; Half graben; Hyper extended domain; Rifted margin stratigraphy; Supra detachment basin

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONS; ALPINE TETHYS; DETACHMENT FAULT; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY PHASIS; HALF-GRABEN; HYPER-EXTENDED DOMAIN; JURASSIC; RE-EVALUATION; RIFT STRUCTURE; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEA FLOOR; SPACE AND TIME; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; SUPRA-DETACHMENT BASIN; UPPER TRIASSIC;

ARCHITECTURE; TECTONICS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLOCHTHON; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; PLIENSBACHIAN; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

EID: 84872763100     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12017     Document Type: Article

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