Sicily's fold-thrust belt and slab roll-back: The SI.RI.PRO. seismic crustal transect

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 451-464

  Catalano, Raimondo ^a   Valenti, Vera ^a   Albanese, Cinzia ^a   Accaino, Flavio ^b   Sulli, Attilio ^a   Tinivella, Umberta ^b   Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio ^a   Zanolla, Claudio ^b   Giustiniani, Michela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL TRANSECT; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; OROGENIC WEDGE; ROLL BACK; SUBDUCTION MODEL; SYNFORM;

BUILDINGS;

TECTONICS;

ALLOCHTHON; BASEMENT ROCK; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; OROGENIC BELT; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

ITALY; SICILY;

PELAGIA;

EID: 84877635411     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-099     Document Type: Article

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