Strike-slip movements and thrusting along a transpressive fault zone: The North Giudicarie line (Insubric line, northern Italy)

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 921-937

  Presser, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; KINEMATICS; MESOZOIC; TRANSPRESSION;

ALPS; GIUDICARIE BELT; ITALY;

DEFORMATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION HISTORY; DEFORMATION PARTITIONING; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; RIGHT LATERAL STRIKE SLIP FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0032432693     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998tc900010     Document Type: Article

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