Detachment folding-related Miocene submarine slope instability in the Romagna Apennines (Italy)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Bonini, Marco ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; MIOCENE; SLOPE STABILITY;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644665620     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003552     Document Type: Article

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