Active geodynamics of the central Mediterranean Sea: Tensional tectonic evidences in western Sicily from mantle-derived helium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Caracausi, A ^a   Favara, R ^a   Italiano, F ^a   Nuccio, P M ^a,b   Paonita, A ^a   Rizzo, A ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento Chimica e Fisica della Terra ed Applicazioni   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEAT FLUX; ISOTOPES; TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; HELIUM;

CONTINENTAL AREA; HEAT DATA; MAGMA; MANTLE;

GEOLOGY; FAULTING;

GEODYNAMICS; HEAT FLOW; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MAGMATISM; TECTONIC SETTING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

FERDINANDEA; CALLUNA VULGARIS;

CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CONTINENTAL AREA; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HE ISOTOPES; HELIUM FLUX; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TENSIONAL TECTONICS; TRANSTENSIONAL TECTONICS;

EID: 19744363098     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021608     Document Type: Article

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