Basin-wide mass-wasting complexes as markers of the Oligo-Miocene foredeep-accretionary wedge evolution in the Northern Apennines, Italy

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-71

  Lucente, Claudio Corrado ^a   Pini, Gian Andrea ^b  

^a Regione Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EMPLACEMENT; FOREARC BASIN; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS WASTING; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 40349084440     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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