The Western Alps from the Jurassic to Oligocene: spatio-temporal constraints and evolutionary reconstructions
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2005
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Rosenbaum, Gideon
Lister, Gordon
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Despite extensive research in the last 150 years, the regional tectonic reconstruction of the Western Alps has remained controversial. The curved orogenic belt consists of several ribbon-like continental terranes (Sesia/Austroalpine, Internal Crystalline
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Keywords: ophiolite; orogenic belt; Phanerozoic; plate convergence; structural geology; tectonic evolution; terrane; Alps; Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia; Europe; Western Alps; World Alpine Orogeny; Alps; Ophiolite complexes; Reconstruction; Subduction
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Earth-Science Reviews
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