Tectonics and seismicity of the Tindari Fault System, southern Italy: Crustal deformations at the transition between ongoing contractional and extensional domains located above the edge of a subducting slab

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Billi, Andrea ^a   Barberi, Graziella ^b   Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Neri, Giancarlo ^c   Pepe, Fabrizio ^d   Sulli, Attilio ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745435037     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001763     Document Type: Article

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