Coexistence of fault-propagation and fault-bend folding in curve-shaped foreland fold-and-thrust belts: Examples from the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Terra Nova

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 396-406

  Calamita, Fernando ^a   Pace, Paolo ^a   Satolli, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; INVERSION TECTONICS; NEOGENE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THRUST;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84866020560     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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