Origin of the Alps and Western Mediterranean

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 1971 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 233, pages 44-48 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: K. J. HSÜ;

doi: 10.1038/233044a0

Origin of the Alps and Western Mediterranean

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The origin of the Alpine geosyncline may have been related to the eastward motion of Africa relative to Europe during the Mesozoic, and orogenesis in western Europe could have been caused by a westward and then a northward movement of Africa.

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