Styles and regimes of orogenic thickening in the Peloritani Mountains (Sicily, Italy): New constraints on the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Apennine belt

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 552-569

  Vignaroli, Gianluca ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Theye, Thomas ^b   Faccenna, Claudio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine metamorphism; Calabria Peloritani Arc; Continental subduction; Metamorphic petrology; Peloritani Mountains

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GASOLINE; PETROLOGY; TECTONICS;

ALPINE METAMORPHISM; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CALABRIA; CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS;

LANDFORMS;

CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PETROLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

APENNINES; CALABRIAN ARC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 46749148405     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807004293     Document Type: Article

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