Middle Pleistocene to Holocene activity of the Gondola Fault Zone (Southern Adriatic Foreland): Deformation of a regional shear zone and seismotectonic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 110-121

  Ridente, Domenico ^a   Fracassi, Umberto ^b   Di Bucci, Daniela ^c   Trincardi, Fabio ^a   Valensise, Gianluca ^b  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active fault; Adriatic Sea; Foreland deformation; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLDING; FORELAND BASIN; KINEMATICS; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GARGANO PROMONTORY; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649173045     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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