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Introduction
The Western Tethys realm embraces the Mediterranean Sea, its Alpine fold belts,
and the adjacent cratonic areas. Thus, the area covered by this compilation ...
www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/97020/introduc.htm - 16k - Còpia en memòria - Pàgines semblants

LECTURE NOTES ON THE MAJOR SOILS OF THE WORLD
Landforms in alpine fold belts (lower than 3000 metres). High mountain areas in
tropical regions became glaciated in the Pleistocene but tracts lower than ...
www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/Y1899E/y1899e08a.htm - 91k - Còpia en memòria - Pàgines semblants

[PDF] Structures within greenschist facies Alpine Schist, central ...
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oblique to the strike of the Alpine Fault. This Alpine fold. generation provides
a useful structural marker along the. Southern Alps, helping to distinguish ...
www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjgg/1994/8.pdf - Pàgines semblants

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The term fold is used in geology when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation. Folds in rocks vary in size from microscopic crinkles to mountain-sized folds. They occur singly as isolated folds and in extensive fold trains of different sizes, on a variety of scales. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(geology)