The Vallo di Diano and Auletta extensional basins in the southern Apennines (Italy): A simple model for a complex setting

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 475-482

  Amicucci, Laura ^a,b   Barchi, Massimiliano R ^b   Montone, Paola ^a   Rubiliani, Nicola ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; NORMAL FAULT; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSTENSION;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AULETTA;

EID: 56849124573     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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