Insights into shallow-level processes of mountain building from the Northern Apennines, Italy

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-120

  Vannucchi, Paola ^a   Maltman, Alex J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apennines; Deformation; Fluid pressure; Lithification; Orogenesis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; LITHIFICATION; OROGENY;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 0007424073     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.1.105     Document Type: Article

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