Tectonically-driven mud volcanism since the late Pliocene on the Calabrian accretionary prism, central Mediterranean Sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1849-1865

  Praeg, D ^a   Ceramicola, S ^a   Barbieri, R ^b   Unnithan, V ^c   Wardell, N ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Caldera; Cones; Extrusion; Fluids; Interfingering; Mediterranean; Mud volcanoes; Pie; Seismic; Subsidence; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CALDERA; INTERFINGERING; MEDITERRANEAN; MUD VOLCANOES; PIE; SEISMIC; TECTONISM;

BUILDINGS; CAVITY RESONATORS; EXTRUSION; FLUIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); PRISMS; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

VOLCANOES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; MUD VOLCANO; PLIOCENE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANISM;

CALABRIAN ARC; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70350006730     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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