The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen, a composite terrane in Central Mediterranean; Its overall architecture and geodynamic significance for a pre-Alpine scenario around the Tethyan basin

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 84, Issue 3B, 2015, Pages

  Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Fiannacca, Patrizia ^a   Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a   Punturo, Rosalda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine orogeny; Calabria and NE Sicily; Palaeogeography; Variscan crystalline basements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941882806     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2015PM0446     Document Type: Article

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