Subsidence history from a backstripping analysis of the Permo-Mesozoic succession of the Central Southern Alps (Northern Italy)

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 952-975

  Berra, Fabrizio ^a   Carminati, Eugenio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; MESOZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SLIP RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSTENSION; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 78751524493     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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