Late Quarternary activity of the Scorciabuoi Fault (southern Italy) as inferred from morphotectonic investigations and numerical modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Caputo, Riccardo ^a   Salviulo, Luigi ^b   Bianca, Marcello ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; ELASTICITY; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

BASILICATA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SAURO RIVER; SCORCIABUOI FAULT ZONE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50949112150     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002203     Document Type: Article

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