The Alpine evolution of the Southern Alps around the Giudicarie faults: A Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene transfer zone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 414, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 203-223

  Castellarin, Alberto ^a   Vai, Gian Battista ^a   Cantelli, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flysch deposits; Frontal thrust migration; Late Cretaceous; Normal fault; Periadriatic lineament; Peripheral bulge; Sinistral transfer zone; Structural belts

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EOCENE; PALEOCENE;

ALPS; DOLOMITES; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 32044443612     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.10.019     Document Type: Article

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