Ionian marine terraces of southern Italy: Insights into the Quaternary tectonic evolution of the area

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Caputo, R ^a,b   Bianca, M ^b   D'Onofrio, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; SOIL CONSERVATION; TECTONICS;

3D GEOMETRY; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; APENNINES; BASAL DETACHMENT; CRITICAL REVIEW; DIFFERENT SCALE; DUPLEXING; EUSTATIC SEA LEVEL; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; LATE QUATERNARY; LITHOSPHERIC; MARINE SURFACES; MODEL-BASED; SOUTHERN ITALY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TECTONIC UPLIFT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; EUSTACY; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT;

IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77955216678     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002625     Document Type: Article

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