Shallow structures at the outer Calabrian accretionary wedge (NW Ionian Sea): New insights from recently migrated reflection data

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 453-462

  Valenti, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CALABRIAN; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC WEDGE;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78349239689     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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