Large-scale gravity-driven structures: Control on margin architecture and related deposits of a Cretaceous Carbonate Platform (Montagna della Maiella, Central Apennines, Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 619-628

  Morsilli, Michele ^a   Rusciadelli, Giovanni ^b   Bosellini, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apulia carbonate platform; Carbonate platforms; Cretaceous; Maiella; Scalloped margin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968895049     PISSN: 00378763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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