Magnetic anisotropy of Plio-Pleistocene sediments from the Adriatic margin of the northern Apennines (Italy): Implications for the time-space evolution of the stress field

Tectonophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 139-153

  Sagnotti, Leonardo ^a   Winkler, Aldo ^a   Montone, Paola ^a   Di Bella, Letizia ^b   Florindo, Fabio ^a   Mariucci, Maria Teresa ^a   Marra, Fabrizio ^a   Alfonsi, Laura ^a   Frepoli, Alberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apennines; Italy; Magnetic susceptibility anisotropy; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Stress field

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRESS;

ITALY;

EID: 0033391651     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00159-6     Document Type: Article

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