Neogene-Quaternary tectonic stratigraphy of the eastern Southern Alps, NE Italy

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1009-1027

  Caputo, R ^a   Poli, M E ^b   Zanferrari, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collision; Conglomerates; Geodynamics; Mesostructural analysis; Stress field

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; APENNINES; BASAL DETACHMENT; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; COLLISION; COMPRESSIONAL; CONGLOMERATES; LATE OLIGOCENE; LATE PLIOCENE; LITERATURE DATA; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; MESOSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; MESSINIAN; NEO GENES; NORTHERN APENNINES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STRESS FIELD; STRESS REGIME; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GEODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRATIGRAPHY; STRESSES;

TECTONICS;

CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOGENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; QUATERNARY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 77957018832     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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