Very high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of Pleistocene eustatic minima markers as a tool to reconstruct the tectonic evolution of the northern Latium shelf (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-378

  Fraccascia, S ^a,c   Chiocci, F L ^a,b   Scrocca, D ^b   Falese, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DEPTH VARIATION; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGH RESOLUTION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; PLEISTOCENE; REFLECTION SEISMIC; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TYRRHENIAN SEA; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; WEDGE-SHAPED BODIES;

ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EUSTACY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRACE; UPLIFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ITALY; LAZIO; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 84874709453     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33868.1     Document Type: Article

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