Structural style and tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Neogene-Quaternary Siderno Basin, southern Calabrian Arc, Italy

International Geology Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 468-481

  Tripodi, Vincenzo ^a   Muto, Francesco ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabrian Arc; forearc; Ionian basin; southern Italian orogenic belt; strike slip faults

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; FOREARC BASIN; INVERSION TECTONICS; NEOGENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; QUATERNARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

CALABRIAN ARC; ITALY;

EID: 84873444303     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2012.723859     Document Type: Article

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