Macro- and meso-scale structural criteria for identifying pre-thrusting normal faults within foreland fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from the Central-Northern Apennines (Italy)

Terra Nova

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 50-62

  Calamita, Fernando ^a   Di Domenica, Alessandra ^a   Pace, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b GEPlan Consulting   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FAULTING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; NORMAL FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 85034630759     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12307     Document Type: Article

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