Analysis of deformation structures in Pliocene and Quaternary deposits of the Hyblean Plateaux (south-eastern Sicily)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 499, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 41-53

  Pirrotta, Claudia ^a   Barbano, Maria Serafina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractures; Liquefaction; Quaternary; Sedimentary dykes; Seismites; Soft sediment deformations

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION FEATURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; EXTERNAL CAUSE; FILLING MATERIALS; HISTORICAL ACCOUNT; MICROSCOPIC FEATURES; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY DYKES; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMITES; SOFT SEDIMENT DEFORMATIONS; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; STRESS FIELD; STUDY AREAS; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; LIQUEFACTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DIKE; EARTHQUAKE; LIQUEFACTION; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD;

HYBLEAN PLATEAU; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79952004830     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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