Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1099-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1099-2018
Research article
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25 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2018

Linking Alpine deformation in the Aar Massif basement and its cover units – the case of the Jungfrau–Eiger mountains (Central Alps, Switzerland)

David Mair, Alessandro Lechmann, Marco Herwegh, Lukas Nibourel, and Fritz Schlunegger

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