Frontal part of the northern Apennines fold and thrust belt in the Romagna-Marche area (Italy): Shallow and deep structural styles

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 559-574

  Coward, Mike P ^a   De Donatis, Mauro ^b   Mazzoli, Stefano ^b   Paltrinieri, Werter ^c   Wezel, Forese Carlo ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c British Gas Ricerche Minerarie   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ITALY;

EID: 0032872885     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900003     Document Type: Article

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