Upper Messinian siliciclastic rocks in southeastern Calabria (southern Italy): Paleotectonic and eustatic implications for the evolution of the central Mediterranean region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 298, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 223-241

  Cavazza, William ^a   DeCelles, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical taper theory; Isostatic rebound; Mediterranean; Messinian; Syntectonic sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EUSTACY; MESSINIAN; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ITALY;

EID: 0032583005     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00186-3     Document Type: Article

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