Large-scale sedimentary recycling of tectonic mélange in a forearc setting: The ionian basin (Oligocene-Quaternary, southern Italy)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1932-1949

  Cavazza, William ^a   Barone, Mirko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FORE-ARC BASIN; FOREARC; LATE MIOCENE; LEADING EDGE; MARINE DEPOSITS; MESSINIAN; MICROPLATES; OBLIQUE COLLISION; OLIGOCENE; SOUTHERN ITALY; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

DEFORMATION; RECYCLING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; FOREARC BASIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELANGE; MICROPLATE; OLIGOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; QUATERNARY; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; CALABRIA; ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 78049428847     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30177.1     Document Type: Article

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