The Calabrian Arc subduction complex in the Ionian Sea: Regional architecture, active deformation, and seismic hazard

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Polonia, A ^a   Torelli, L ^b   Mussoni, P ^b   Gasperini, L ^a   Artoni, A ^b   Klaeschen, D ^c  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; ACTIVE DEFORMATION; BASAL DETACHMENT; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; DEFORMATION RATES; DEFORMATION ZONE; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; FAULT PLANES; FAULT STRANDS; FINE STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IONIAN SEA; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTIBEAM DATA; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC PROFILES; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SOURCE REGION; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TECTONIC PROCESS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UNDERPLATING;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFRICAN PLATE; CALABRIAN; DEFORMATION; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; ISLAND ARC; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; TERRACE; THRUST; UNDERPLATING;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 80455137076     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002821     Document Type: Article

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