Brittle post-metamorphic tectonics in the gran paradiso massif (north-western Italian Alps)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-90

  Perello, Paolo ^a   Delle Piane, Luca ^a   Piana, Fabrizio ^b   Stella, Filippo ^a   Damiano, Antonio ^a  

^a SEA Consulting srl   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse sezione di Torino   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brittle tectonics; Faulting; Gran Paradiso; Structural analysis; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAIAN ALPS; GRAN PARADISO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 3242699002     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ga.17.71-90     Document Type: Article

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