Late Cenozoic tectono-stratigraphic sequences of the Crotone Basin: Insights on the geodynamic history of the Calabrian arc and Tyrrhenian Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-51

  Massari, F ^a   Prosser, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EXTENSION; FAULTING; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSTENSION; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; ITALY;

EID: 84873096378     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2012.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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