Sedimentation, fracturing and sliding on a pelagic plateau margin: The middle jurassic to lower Cretaceous succession of Rocca Busambra (Western Sicily, Italy)

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1016-1040

  Bertok, Carlo ^a   Martire, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Block sliding; Condensed pelagic sediments; Jurassic; Palaeoescarpment; Western Sicily

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIKE; ESCARPMENT; FRACTURE ZONE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOFACIES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENTATION; SLIDING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUCCESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PALERMO [SICILY]; ROCCA BUSAMBRA; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 65649083022     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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