Shallow burial and exhumation of the Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily, Italy): Insight from paleothermal and structural indicators

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 132-149

  Aldega, Luca ^a   Corrado, Sveva ^a   Paolo, Lea Di ^a   Somma, Roberta ^b   Maniscalco, Rosanna ^c   Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COLLISION PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY STAGE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC; LATE MIOCENE; LAYERED CLAY MINERALS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MIOCENE; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; OLIGOCENE; PALEO-GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; SEDIMENTARY BURIAL; SHALLOW BURIAL; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL PARAMETERS; THRUST TECTONICS; TIME SPAN; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

CLAY MINERALS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CLAY MINERAL; COLLISION ZONE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; NAPPE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SERRAVALLIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY;

EID: 79251474361     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30093.1     Document Type: Article

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