Low-angle normal faulting and focused exhumation associated with late Pliocene change in tectonic style in the southern Apennines (Italy)

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1802-1818

  Mazzoli, Stefano ^a   Ascione, Alessandra ^a   Buscher, Jamie T ^a   Pignalosa, Antonio ^b   Valente, Ettore ^a   Zattin, Massimiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBONATES; EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SOUTHERN APENNINES; TECTONIC EXHUMATION; TECTONIC PROCESS; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84919386983     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003608     Document Type: Article

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