Bowl-shaped basin related to low-angle detachment during continental extension: The case of the controversial Neogene Siena Basin (central Italy, Northern Apennines)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 499, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 54-76

  Brogi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basin evolution; Extensional tectonics; Hanging wall synclinal basin; Northern Apennines; Supradetachment basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HANGING WALL SYNCLINAL BASIN; NORTHERN APENNINES; SUPRADETACHMENT BASIN;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISEASES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WELL LOGGING;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; HANGING WALL; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SERRAVALLIAN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNFORM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 79952008565     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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