Direct evidence of Middle Oligocene extension in the Calabria - Peloritani terrane from co-seismic faulting: The pseudotachylyte-bearing shear zones of Palmi (southern Calabria, Italy)

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-303

  Grande, Antonietta ^a   Di Vincenzo, Gianfranco ^a   Prosser, Giacomo ^b   Caggianelli, Alfredo ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE MEDIUM; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DUCTILITY; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; OLIGOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67749106351     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00884.x     Document Type: Article

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