Multidisciplinary study of the Tindari Fault (Sicily, Italy) separating ongoing contractional and extensional compartments along the active Africa-Eurasia convergent boundary

Tectonophysics

Volumn 588, Issue , 2013, Pages

  De Guidi, G ^a   Lanzafame, G ^b   Palano, M ^b   Puglisi, G ^b   Scaltrito, A ^b   Scarfi L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aeolian Tindari fault system; Africa Eurasia convergence; Multidisciplinary approach; Stress and strain fields; Transform activity

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; GEODYNAMICS;

BACK-ARC EXTENSIONS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; EURASIA; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SYSTEM; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MUTUALLY INDEPENDENTS; STRESS AND STRAIN;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

AFRICAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EURASIAN PLATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY;

EID: 84874513286     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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