Using high-resolution stratigraphy and structural analysis to constrain polyphase tectonics in wedge-top basins: Inferences from the late Tortonian Scillato Basin (central-northern Sicily)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 273-274, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-47

  Gugliotta, C ^a   Gasparo Morticelli, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central northern Sicily; Deep seated tectonics; Late Tortonian; Polyphase evolution; Tectonics and sedimentation; Terravecchia Formation

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL-NORTHERN SICILY; COMPRESSIONAL; FIELD DATA; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LATE MIOCENE; LATE TORTONIAN; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NEO GENES; OROGENIC WEDGE; POLYPHASE EVOLUTIONS; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL POINT; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TERRAVECCHIA FORMATION; THRUST BELTS; WEDGE-TOP BASIN;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

TECTONICS;

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NEOGENE; OUTCROP; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TORTONIAN;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84865162095     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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