Exhumation and reshaping of far-travelled/allochthonous tectonic units in mountain belts. New insights for the relationships between shortening and coeval extension in the western Northern Apennines (Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 608, Issue , 2013, Pages 267-287

  Carlini, Mirko ^a   Artoni, Andrea ^a   Aldega, Luca ^b   Balestrieri, Maria Laura ^c   Corrado, Sveva ^d   Vescovi, Paolo ^a   Bernini, Massimo ^a   Torelli, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apatite fission track analysis; Clay mineral based geothermometers; Exhumation denudation; Extension and contraction; Northern Apennines orogenic wedge; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; EXHUMATION-DENUDATION; GEOTHERMOMETERS; OROGENIC WEDGE; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

CLAY MINERALS; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; REFLECTION;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC WEDGE; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84887827453     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.09.029     Document Type: Article

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