The Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Crotone Basin (southern Italy): Interplay between sedimentation, tectonics and eustasy in the frame of Calabrian Arc migration

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 273-303

  Zecchin, Massimo ^a   Caffau, Mauro ^a   Civile, Dario ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^b   Di Stefano, Agata ^c   Maniscalco, Rosanna ^c   Muto, Francesco ^b   Sturiale, Giovanni ^c   Roda, Cesare ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabrian Arc; Crotone Basin; Eustasy; Pliocene Pleistocene; Tectonics and sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; ESTUARY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSPRESSION; UNCONFORMITY;

CALABRIA; CALABRIAN ARC; CROTONE BASIN; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84869145081     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.10.005     Document Type: Review

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