Petro-structural geology of the Eastern Aspromonte Massif crystalline basement (southern Italy-Calabria): an example of interoperable geo-data management from thin section – to field scale

Journal of Maps

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 181-200

  Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a   Tripodi, Vincenzo ^b   Zappala, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; GeoSciMl; GIS geological mapping; Spline; structural data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920572857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17445647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2014.948939     Document Type: Article

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