The response of drainage basins to the late Quaternary tectonics in the Sicilian side of the Messina Strait (NE Sicily)

Geomorphology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 260-273

  Guarnieri, Pierpaolo ^a   Pirrotta, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Fluvial networks; Geomorphic Indices; Late Quaternary; Messina Strait

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DRAINAGE BASIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 39149115733     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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