Block model versus thermomechanical model: New insights on the present-day regional deformation in the surroundings of the Calabrian Arc

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 332, Issue , 2010, Pages 129-147

  Splendore, Raffaele ^a   Marotta, Anna Maria ^a   Barzaghi, Riccardo ^b   Borghi, Alessandra ^b   Cannizzaro, Letizia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; THERMOMECHANICS;

AFRICA; CALABRIAN ARC; EURASIA;

EID: 77956007766     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP332.9     Document Type: Article

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