Late Pleistocene to Holocene record of changing uplift rates in southern Calabria and northeastern Sicily (southern Italy, Central Mediterranean Sea)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 23-40

  Antonioli, Fabrizio ^a   Ferranti, Luigi ^b   Lambeck, Kurt ^c   Kershaw, Steve ^d   Verrubbi, Vladimiro ^a   Dai Pra, Giuseppe ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Mediterranean; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Messina straits; Sea level; Tectonic uplift

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMOTECTONICS; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

SCILLA;

EID: 33746773743     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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