The subsidence history of the northern Hyblean plateau margin, southeastern Sicily

Tectonophysics

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 277-289

  Yellin Dror, A ^a   Grasso, M ^b   Ben Avraham, Z ^a   Tibor, G ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Taldor Navot Image Proc Remote S   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collision tectonics; Hyblean plateau; Neotethyan; Sicily; Subsidence analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

ITALY, SICILY, HYBLEAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0031414477     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00228-X     Document Type: Article

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