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Science 19 December 1969:
Vol. 166. no. 3912, pp. 1506 - 1507
DOI: 10.1126/science.166.3912.1506
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Molasse Facies: Records of Worldwide Crustal Stresses

F. B. Van Houten 1

1 Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Predominantly nonmarine molasse deposits in the Tethyan and Cordilleran mobile belts record major variations in orogenic activity in latest Cretaceous to earliest Cenozoic, mid-Cenozoic, and latest Cenozoic time. During the same intervals changes in activity also occurred on the sea floor. This coincidence suggests worldwide effects of movement of crustal plates.

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