THE FOREDEEPS OF THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC MARGIN: EVIDENCE OF DIACHRONEITY IN DEFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN ALPS

THE FOREDEEPS OF THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC MARGIN: EVIDENCE OF DIACHRONEITY IN DEFORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN ALPS

The evolution of the foredeeps which developed on the northern Adriatic foreland took piace in a regime of oblique convergence. From the Late Oligocene onwards much compression in the Southern Alps must have been the compressional component of dextral transpression along the Insubric Line, as sug­ge...

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Main Author: FRANCESCO MASSARI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2017-08-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Subjects:
Neogene
Southern Alps
Foredeep
Diachronous thrusting
Insubric line
Oblique conver­gence
Anticlockwise shear.
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/9043

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