Discovery of a gliding salt-detached megaslide, Calabria, Ionian Sea, Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4220-4224

  Minelli, Liliana ^a   Billi, Andrea ^b   Faccenna, Claudio ^c   Gervasi, Anna ^a,d   Guerra, Ignazio ^d   Orecchio, Barbara ^d,e   Speranza, Giulio ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; GPS; landslide; salt; seismic reflection profiles

Indexed keywords

CALABRIA; GPS VELOCITIES; IONIAN SEA; ROCK SALT; SALT LAYERS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SOUTHERN ITALY; TOE THRUSTS;

LANDSLIDES; SALTS; SEISMIC WAVES; VISCOSITY; WELL LOGGING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

GPS; ROCK SALT; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLIDING; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; THRUST; VISCOSITY; WELL LOGGING;

CALABRIA; CROTONE BASIN; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84882412907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50818     Document Type: Article

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