Maximum burial and unroofing of Mt. Judica recess area in Sicily: ®mplication for the Apenninic-Maghrebian wedge dynamics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 530-531, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-207

  Di Paolo, Lea ^a   Aldega, Luca ^b   Corrado, Sveva ^a   Mastalerz, Maria ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apenninic Maghrebian fold and thrust belt; Basin modeling; Mixed layer illite smectite; Organic matter; Sicily; Wedge dynamics

Indexed keywords

BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; BASIN MODELING; DIAGENETICS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPIES; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; ILLITE-SMECTITE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; RECESS AREA; SICILY; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TECTONIC THICKENING; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL MATURITY; THERMAL PARAMETERS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLAY MINERALS; DYNAMICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEODYNAMICS; MODEL STRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GEODYNAMICS; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; ILLITE; MIOCENE; ORGANIC MATTER; SMECTITE; THERMAL MATURITY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84858295696     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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