The role of pre-existing faults in the structural evolution of thrust systems: Insights from the Ligurian Alps (Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 73-87

  Bonini, Lorenzo ^a   Dallagiovanna, Giorgio ^a   Seno, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foreland basin; Inversion tectonics; Kinematic model; Ligurian Alps; Out of sequence thrusting

Indexed keywords

BUCKLE FOLDS; CORSICA; FIELD DATA; FORELAND BASIN; KINEMATIC MODEL; MESOZOIC RIFTING; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; NORMAL FAULTS; OCEANIC BASIN; OLIGOCENE; PARTIAL REACTIVATION; PERMIAN; POSITIVE INVERSION; REORGANISATION; SARDINIA; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL STYLES; THRUST SYSTEMS; VARISCAN;

STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

KINEMATICS;

BLOCK ROTATION; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; FORELAND BASIN; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INVERSION TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PERMIAN; RIFTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

ALPS; ITALY; LIGURIA;

EID: 72649083152     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.09.021     Document Type: Article

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