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Plateau-Uplift of the Rhenish Massif - Introductory Remarks

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Plateau Uplift

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The plateau uplift of the Rhenish Massif in the Federal Republic of Germany was the object of a multi-disciplinary research program which started in 1976. The program comprised geological, geophysical, geodetic, petrological, geochemical, geomorphologic, and age-dating surveys together with attempts to model the uplift numerically. This introduction summarises the problems of plateau uplift of the Rhenish Massif as they appeared at the beginning and during the starting phase of the research program. Special emphasis is placed on the following subjects: the Rhenish Massif in the foreland of the Alpine collision front and its relation to the tectonics in the Upper Rhine Graben and the graben of the Lower Rhenish Embayment; shear heating vs. hot spot hypothesis; interaction between uplift, rifting, volcanism and mantle heterogeneities, asymmetries of plateau uplift west and east of the Rhine.

Contribution No. 253, Geophysical Institute Karlsruhe

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  1. Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Hertzstraße 16, D-7500, Karlsruhe 21, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    K. Fuchs

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  1. Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Hertzstraße 16, D-7500, Karlsruhe 21, Germany

    Karl Fuchs

  2. Institut für Geochemie, Petrologie und Lagerstättenkunde, Universität Frankfurt, Postfach 111932, D-6000, Frankfurt 11, Germany

    Kurt von Gehlen

  3. Geodätisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstraße 12, D-7500, Karlsruhe 1, Germany

    Hermann Mälzer

  4. Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 32-34, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Hans Murawski

  5. Institut für Physische Geographie, Senckenberganlage 36, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Arno Semmel

  6. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Senckenberganlage 36, D-6000, Frankfurt, Germany

    Arno Semmel

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Illies, J.H., Fuchs, K. (1983). Plateau-Uplift of the Rhenish Massif - Introductory Remarks. In: Fuchs, K., von Gehlen, K., Mälzer, H., Murawski, H., Semmel, A. (eds) Plateau Uplift. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69219-2_1

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