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Early Cretaceous extensional tectonics in the southwestern French Alps; a consequence of North-Atlantic rifting during Tethyan spreading
P. C. de Graciansky and M. Lemoine
Early Cretaceous extensional tectonics in the southwestern French Alps; a consequence of North-Atlantic rifting during Tethyan spreading
Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France (September 1988) 4 (5): 733-737
Early Cretaceous extensional tectonics in the southwestern French Alps; a consequence of North-Atlantic rifting during Tethyan spreading
Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France (September 1988) 4 (5): 733-737
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Alpes-Maritimes France
- Alps
- angular unconformities
- Atlantic Ocean
- basins
- Bouches-du-Rhone France
- continental margin sedimentation
- cratons
- Cretaceous
- Drome France
- Europe
- extension tectonics
- France
- French Alps
- Hautes-Alpes France
- Italy
- Jurassic
- Liguria Italy
- Ligurian Alps
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mesozoic
- North Atlantic
- passive margins
- plate tectonics
- rifting
- sea-floor spreading
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentation
- Southern Europe
- subsidence
- tectonics
- tectonophysics
- Tethys
- unconformities
- Upper Jurassic
- Var France
- Western Alps
- Western Europe
- Vocontian Basin
- Ventoux-Lure Massif
- Barronies Massif
Latitude & Longitude
ISSN: 0037-9409
EISSN: 1777-5817
Serial Title: Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
Serial Volume: 4
Serial Issue: 5
Title: Early Cretaceous extensional tectonics in the southwestern French Alps; a consequence of North-Atlantic rifting during Tethyan spreading
Affiliation: Ec. Natl. Super. Mines,
Paris 75272,
France
Pages: 733-737
Published: 198809
Text Language: English
Summary Language: French
Publisher: Societe Geologique de France,
Paris,
France
References: 1 p.
Accession Number: 1992-055134
Categories: Solid-earth geophysics
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. geol. sketch map
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N43°00'00" - N43°45'00", E05°30'00" - E07°00'00"
Country of Publication: France
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2018, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from PASCAL, Institute de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
Update Code: 1992
