Raised marine terraces in the Northern Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy): A ∼ 600 kyr-long geological record of regional uplift

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1391-1406

  Cucci, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active fault; Calabrian Arc; Marine terrace; Pleistocene; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; GEODYNAMICS; ISLAND ARC; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12844286139     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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