Detrital modes of the Ionian forearc basin fill (oligocene-quaternary) reflect the tectonic evolution of the Calabria-Peloritani terrane (Southern Italy)

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 268-279

  Cavazza, William ^a   Ingersoll, Raymond V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASOLINE; LARGE DATASET; LITHOLOGY; PETROLOGY; VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; LITHOLOGIC COMPOSITIONS; OUT OF SEQUENCES; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN FILL; FOREARC BASIN; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC SETTING;

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

EID: 14844342007     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2005.020     Document Type: Article

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