Late quaternary deformation of the southern adriatic foreland (southern apulia) from mesostructural data: preliminary results

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-46

  Di Bucci, Daniela ^a   Coccia, Stella ^b   Fracassi, Umberto ^c   Iurilli, Vincenzo ^b   Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe ^b   Palmentola, Giovanni ^b   Sanso, Paolo ^d   Selleri, Gianluca ^d   Valensise, Gianluca ^c  

^a DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Brittle deformation; Pleistocene; Salento

Indexed keywords

EID: 64449084278     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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