Present-day stress field and active tectonics in southern peninsular Italy

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 519-534

  Amato, Alessandro ^a   Montone, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Quaternary; Stress distribution; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; STRESS; TECTONICS;

ITALY;

EID: 0031442844     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb05666.x     Document Type: Article

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