Evidence for precollisional subduction erosion in ancient collisional belts: The case of the Mid-European Variscides

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1075-1078

  Oncken, Onno ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

COLLISION ZONE; EARLY CONVERGENCE; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; OROGENIC EVOLUTION; SAXOTHURINGIAN; SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION; SUBDUCTION EROSION; THRUST BELTS;

EROSION;

COLLISION ZONE; EROSION; SUBDUCTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84879885848     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1075:EFPSEI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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