Spreading pulses of the Tyrrhenian Sea during the narrowing of the Calabrian slab

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 819-822

  Guillaume, Benjamin ^a,b   Funiciello, Francesca ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Martinod, Joseph ^c   Olivetti, Valerio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; LABORATORY MODELS; MARSILI BASIN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RESISTING FORCES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT EFFECT; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

BACKARC BASIN; KINEMATICS; PLEISTOCENE; SLAB; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 77958113398     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31038.1     Document Type: Article

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