Seismically-induced slumps in Lower-Maastrichtian peritidal carbonates of the Apulian Platform (southern Italy)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 81-98

  Spalluto, Luigi ^a   Moretti, Massimo ^a   Festa, Vincenzo ^a   Tropeano, Marcello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apulian Platform; Early Maastrichtian; Peritidal limestones; Seismically induced soft sediment deformation structures; Slump; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD; LIMESTONE; LITHOFACIES; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SLUMPING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MURGE; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847354314     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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