Flexural-eustatic numerical model for drowning of the Eocene perialpine carbonate ramp and implications for Alpine geodynamics

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1052-1066

  Allen, P A ^a   Burgess, P M ^a   Galewsky, J ^a   Sinclair, H D ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Alps; Carbonate ramps; Foreland basins; Numerical models; Nummulites

Indexed keywords

BASAL UNCONFORMITY;

CARBONATES; ECOLOGY; LIMESTONE; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOLOGY;

ALPINE OROGENY; CARBONATE RAMP; EOCENE; FLEXURE; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84879882665     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1052:FENMFD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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