Growth folding and active thrusting in the Montello region, Veneto, northern Italy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B1, 2000, Pages 739-766

  Benedetti, Lucilla ^a,b   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   King, Geoffrey C P ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a   Manighetti, Isabelle ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; THRUST;

ITALY; VENETO;

EID: 0034627632     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900222     Document Type: Article

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