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A possible Jurassic-Cretaceous transform system in the Alps and the Carpathians
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Published:January 01, 1988
The west-east-directed part of the Penninic ocean basins, with their associated intraoceanic rises of the Alps and the western Carpathians, is considered as a complex Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transform zone that links the northern end of the Piemont-Ligurian ocean with the northern end of the Vardar ocean. The Maghreb transform belt may furnish an analogous example. Several traverses through the Alps are briefly described. Correlation between the Penninic zones of the Western and Eastern Alps is still controversial.
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Processes in Continental Lithospheric Deformation
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218
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© 1988 Geological Society of America
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9780813722184
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January 01, 1988
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- Alps
- Carpathians
- Central Alps
- Central Europe
- correlation
- Cretaceous
- crust
- crustal shortening
- deformation
- displacements
- Europe
- evolution
- faults
- Graubunden Switzerland
- Jurassic
- klippen
- magnetic anomalies
- Mesozoic
- oceanic crust
- paleogeography
- Pennine Alps
- plate boundaries
- Prealps
- strike-slip faults
- structural geology
- Switzerland
- tectonics
- transform faults
- Western Carpathians
- zoning
- Valais Belt
- Maghreb transform zone
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