Relationship between topography, rates of extension and mantle dynamics in the actively-extending Italian Apennines

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 325-326, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-84

  Faure Walker, J P ^a   Roberts, G P ^a   Cowie, P A ^b   Papanikolaou, I ^a   Michetti, A M ^c   Sammonds, P ^a   Wilkinson, M ^d   McCaffrey, K J W ^d   Phillips, R J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active normal fault; Extension; Italy; Late Pleistocene Holocene; Strain; Topography

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; CAMPANIA; DELAY TIME; EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; FAULT SCARP; ITALY; LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MANTLE FLOW; NORMAL FAULTS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLAB WINDOWS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBDUCTING PLATE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRAIN; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

STRAIN RATE;

ACTIVE FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HOLOCENE; MANTLE; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER CRUST;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84857272750     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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