Growth rates and two-mode accretion in the outer orogenic wedge-foreland basin system of Central Apennine (Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 531-556

  Artoni, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accretion rate; Apennine, foreland basin; Orogenic wedge

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EID: 37249000909     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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