Compressional intracontinental orogens: Ancient and modern perspectives

Compressional intracontinental orogens are major zones of crustal thickening produced at large distances from active plate boundaries. Consequently, any account of their initiation and subsequent evolution must be framed outside conventional plate tectonics theory, which can only explain the proxima...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raimondo, T., Hand, M., Collins, William
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53790