An active deformation structure in the Po Plain (N Italy): The Romanengo anticline

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2059-2076

  Bresciani, Ilenia ^a   Perotti, Cesare R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

decompaction; deformation rate; Po Plain; Romanengo anticline; Southern Alps; structural restoration

Indexed keywords

RESTORATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DECOMPACTION; DEFORMATION RATES; PO PLAIN; ROMANENGO ANTICLINE; SOUTHERN ALPS; STRUCTURAL RESTORATIONS;

DEFORMATION;

ANTICLINE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EID: 84910670701     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003422     Document Type: Article

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