The Capo Vaticano (Calabria) coastal terraces and the 1905 M7 earthquake: The geomorphological signature of regional uplift and coseismic slip in southern Italy

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 378-389

  Cucci, Luigi ^a   Tertulliani, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLIP RATE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; ITALY; TYRRHENIAN COAST;

EID: 77956463728     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00961.x     Document Type: Article

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