Deformed Pleistocene marine terraces along the Ionian Sea margin of southern Italy: Unveiling blind fault-related folds contribution to coastal uplift

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 737-762

  Santoro, Enrico ^a   Ferranti, Luigi ^a   Burrato, Pierfrancesco ^b   Mazzella, Maria Enrica ^a   Monaco, Carmelo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

active transpression; fault modeling; fault propagation folds; middle late Pleistocene; Southern Italy; uplifted marine terraces

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

FAULT MODELING; FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS; PLEISTOCENE; SOUTHERN ITALY; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFTED MARINE TERRACES;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; COASTAL EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SLIP RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFT;

GULF OF TARANTO; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84881184490     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20036     Document Type: Article

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