Styles of back-arc extension in the Central Mediterranean

Terra Nova

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 126-130

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Mattei, Massimo ^a   Funiciello, Renato ^a   Jolivet, Laurent ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BACKARC BASINS; BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSION; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031413088     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1997.d01-12.x     Document Type: Article

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