The Western Alps, from rift to passive margin to orogenic belt : an integrated geoscience overview
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| Language: | Anglais |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier
2010.
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| Series: | Developments in Earth surface processes
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Western Alps, from rift to passive margin to orogenic belt, an integrated geoscience overview, Pierre-Charles de Graciansky,... David G. Roberts,... Pierre Tricart,..., Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2010, Developments in earth surface processes, 978-0-444-53725-6 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I, Introduction
- 1, Geosynclines, passive margins, foreland basins and folded belts : an introduction
- The Alps : present day structure
- 3, On the origin of the Alps : the vanished Oceans
- 4, Hercynian inheritance, Tethyan rfiting and alpine nappes
- Part II, The Tethys phase
- 5, The age of the onset of tethyan rfiting in Western Europe
- 6, The Pre-Ligurian Tethys rift phase on the European margin
- 7, Late jurassic and early cretaceous development of the European margin spreading of the Liguro -Piemontais Ocean
- 8, The Late cretaceous phase and the onset of the alpine shortening
- 9, The Tethyan margin in Corsica
- 10, The Apulia - African margin of the Liguro - piemontais Ocean : the transition from continent to ocean
- 11, Liguro - piemontais ophiolites and the alpine palaeo - ocean
- 12, Recapitulation and comparisons : oceans and continental margins in the Alps, an overview
- Part III, From the Tethys to the alpine fold belt
- 13, Birth of the western and central Alps : structural inversion and the onset of orogenesis
- 14, The birth of the western and central Alps : subduction, obduction, collision
- 15, The Alps, neotectonics
- 16, Summary, discussion and conclusion