The contribution of regional uplift and coseismic slip to the vertical crustal motion in the Messina Straits, southern Italy: Evidence from raised Late Holocene shorelines

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ferranti, Luigi ^a   Monaco, Carmelo ^b   Antonioli, Fabrizio ^c   Maschio, Laura ^a   Kershaw, Steve ^d   Verrubbi, Vladimiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; HOLOCENE; SHORELINE CHANGE; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

SCILLA;

EID: 34548430034     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004473     Document Type: Article

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