Paleomagnetic evidence for a post-1.2 Ma disruption of the Calabria terrane: Consequences of slab breakoff on orogenic wedge tectonics

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 925-933

  Speranza, Fabio ^a   Macrì, Patrizia ^a   Rio, Domenico ^b   Fornaciari, Eliana ^b   Consolaro, Chiara ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCK WISE; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; FAULT ZONE; FORE-ARC BASIN; HIGH RESOLUTION; LATE MIOCENE; LATERAL SHEAR; MICROPLATES; NEO GENES; OROGENIC WEDGE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SLAB WINDOWS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROTATION;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOREARC BASIN; MICROPLATE; OROGENY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SLAB; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 79953778425     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30214.1     Document Type: Article

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