Neogene and Quaternary rollback evolution of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Apennines, and the Sicilian Maghrebides

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Rosenbaum, Gideon ^a   Lister, Gordon S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apennines; Reconstruction; Sicilian Maghrebides; Subduction rollback; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 4344675967     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001518     Document Type: Article

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