A ~125° post-early Serravallian counterclockwise rotation of the Gorgoglione Formation (Southern Apennines, Italy): New constraints for the formation of the Calabrian Arc

Tectonophysics

Volumn 590, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-37

  Maffione, Marco ^a   Speranza, Fabio ^a   Cascella, Antonio ^b   Longhitano, Sergio G ^c   Chiarella, Domenico ^c,d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d Weatherford Petroleum Consultants AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calabrian Arc; Gorgoglione Formation; Paleomagnetism; Southern Apennines; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CALABRIAN ARC; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DEFORMATION PATTERN; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; GORGOGLIONE FORMATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; SOUTHERN APENNINES;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETISM; ROTATION;

TECTONICS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALABRIAN; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SERRAVALLIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84875376495     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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