A new interpretation of the Mediterranean arcs: Mantle wedge intrusion instead of subduction

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana, Supplemento

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 129-147

  Scalera, Giancarlo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental and oceanic deep structures; Expanding earth; Wadati Benioff zones

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