Coexisting geodynamic processes in the Sicily Channel

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 83-96

  Corti, Giacomo ^a   Cuffaro, Marco ^b   Doglioni, Carlo ^b   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^a,c   Manetti, Piero ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Coexisting tectonics; Mediterranean; Rifting; Sicily Channel

Indexed keywords

PRISMS; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; FAR-FIELD VELOCITY; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; MEDITERRANEAN; RIFTING; SICILY CHANNEL; TECTONIC PROCESS;

GEODYNAMICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APENNINES; ITALY; STRAIT OF SICILY;

EID: 73949143518     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(05)     Document Type: Article

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