Salt tectonics in the SW Alps (Italy-France): From rifting to the inversion of the European continental margin in a context of oblique convergence

Tectonophysics

Volumn 636, Issue , 2014, Pages 293-314

  Decarlis, A ^a,b   Maino, M ^a   Dallagiovanna, G ^a   Lualdi, A ^a   Masini, E ^b   Seno, S ^a   Toscani, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Et Université de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Foreland basin; Rifting; Salt tectonics; Strike slip; Structural inversion

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALPS; FORELAND BASIN; RIFTING; STRIKE-SLIP; STRUCTURAL INVERSION;

SALT TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENCE; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIAPIRISM; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; OROGENY; OVERTURN; RIFTING; SALT TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

ALPS; FRANCE; ITALY;

EID: 84922341494     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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