The architecture of brittle postorogenic extension: Results from an integrated structural and paleomagnetic study in north Calabria (southern Italy)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 221-239

  Cifelli, Francesca ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Mattei, Massimo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Calabria; Extension tectonics; Italy; Magnetic susceptibility; Neutron diffraction analysis; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; PALEOMAGNETISM; POSTOROGENIC EVOLUTION;

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALOGY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGNETIC FABRIC; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC ROTATION;

CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846541265     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25900.1     Document Type: Article

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