Push-up inversion structures v. fault-bend reactivation anticlines along oblique thrust ramps: Examples from the Apennines fold-and-thrust belt (Italy)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-238

  Pace, P ^a   Calamita, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND THRUST BELT; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; HYDROCARBON TRAPS; INVERSION STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL STYLES;

GEOMETRY;

TECTONICS;

ANTICLINE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; INVERSION TECTONICS; OBLIQUE FAULT; OUTCROP; THRUST FAULT;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84903362864     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2013-053     Document Type: Article

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