Arc-parallel strain in a short rollback-subduction system: The structural evolution of the Crotone basin (northeastern Calabria, southern Italy)

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Reitz, Margaret A ^a   Seeber, Leonardo ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BASIN INVERSIONS; FOREARC; KINEMATIC DATA; MAIN STRUCTURE; MESSINIAN; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; NORMAL FAULTS; PLIOCENE; SOUTHERN ITALY; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TECTONIC MODELS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; MESSINIAN; SEDIMENTATION; STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TORTONIAN; TRANSTENSION;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY; NUBIA; PUGLIA;

EID: 84865332805     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003031     Document Type: Article

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