Three-dimensional insight into central-alpine collision: Lower-plate or upper-plate indentation?

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1219-1222

  Rosenberg, Claudio L ^a,b   Kissling, Eduard ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; CENTRAL ALPS; COLLISIONAL; LOWER CRUST; PLATE FORMS; TWO PLATES; UPPER PLATE;

GEOLOGY;

ELASTICITY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHISM; RHEOLOGY; TECTONIC PLATE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; ENGADIN; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84888374009     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34584.1     Document Type: Article

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