Astronomical dating of a tectonic rotation on Sicily and consequences for the timing and extent of a middle Pliocene deformation phase

Tectonophysics

Volumn 298, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 243-258

  Duermeijer, C E ^a   Langereis, C G ^a  

^a Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astronomical dating; Mediterranean; Paleomagnetism; Pliocene; Sicily; Tectonic rotation

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSPRESSION;

ITALY;

EID: 0032583008     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00187-5     Document Type: Article

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