Tension gash-like back-arc basin opening and its control on subduction rollback inferred from Tertiary faulting in Sardinia

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Helbing, Heiko ^a   Frisch, Wolfgang ^a   Bons, Paul D ^a   Kuhlemann, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; MARGINAL BASIN; PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY; TRANSTENSION;

CALABRIAN ARC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); NUORO; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN BASIN;

EID: 33845794397     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001904     Document Type: Article

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