The Maiella escarpment (Apulia platform, Italy): Geology and modeling of an upper cretaceous scalloped erosional platform margin

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 661-673

  Rusciadelli, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erosion mechanisms; Large scale collapses; Maiella; Paleoescarpment; Scallopped margin

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750387983     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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