A seismic sequence from Northern Apennines (Italy) provides new insight on the role of fluids in the active tectonics of accretionary wedges

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 99-109

  Calderoni, Giovanna ^a   Di Giovambattista, Rita ^a   Burrato, Pierfrancesco ^a   Ventura, Guido ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

accretionary wedge; fluids; geodynamics; Northern Apennines; seismicity; thrust

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; GEODYNAMICS; NORTHERN APENNINES; SEISMICITY; THRUST;

COMPACTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; METHANE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

FLUIDS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFTERSHOCK; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUID PRESSURE; GEODYNAMICS; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONIC WEDGE; THRUST;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63149174760     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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