Active deformation in southern Italy, Sicily and southern Sardinia from GPS velocities of the peri-tyrrhenian geodetic array (PTGA)

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 299-316

  Ferranti, Luigi ^a   Oldow, John S ^b   D'Argenio, Bruno ^c   Catalano, Raimundo ^d   Lewis, David ^b   Marsella, Ennio ^c   Avellone, Giuseppe ^d   Maschio, Laura ^a   Pappone, Gerardo ^e   Pepe, Fabrizio ^d   Sulli, Attilio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active orogenic deformation; GPS velocities; Sicily; Southern italy; Southern sardinia; Transpression and transtension fronts

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749105016     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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