GPS surveys in the foreland-foredeep tectonic system of Southeastern Sicily: First results

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 673-682

  Bonforte, Alessandro ^a   Anzidei, Marco ^b   Puglisi, Giuseppe ^b   Mattia, Mario ^b   Campisi, Orazio ^b   Casula, Giuseppe ^b   Galvani, Alessandro ^b   Pesci, Arianna ^b   Puglisi, Biagio ^b   Gresta, Stefano ^a   Baldi, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

GPS; Ground deformations; Hyblean plateau; Regional tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GPS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 0037281058     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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