Cretaceous-Palaeogene sedimentation patterns and structural evolution of the Tunisian shelf, offshore the Pelagian Islands (Central Mediterranean)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 315, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 235-250

  Grasso, M ^a   Torelli, L ^b   Mazzoldi, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Canada Northwest (CNW) Italiana S   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Mediterranean; Cretaceous; Extensional tectonics; Sedimentation patterns; Structural evolution; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERTIARY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033366785     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00285-1     Document Type: Article

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