The Tauern Window (Eastern Alps, Austria): A new tectonic map, with cross-sections and a tectonometamorphic synthesis

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-32

  Schmid, Stefan M ^a,b   Scharf, Andreas ^a   Handy, Mark R ^a   Rosenberg, Claudio L ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

Author keywords

Age dating; Alpine tectonics; Lithosphere dynamics; Metamorphism; Orogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INDENTATION; KINEMATICS; MAPPING; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; OREGON; TAUERN WINDOW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881048947     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-013-0123-y     Document Type: Article

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