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Document title

Upper Miocene reefs in Southern Calabria: new records from the Palmi and Vibo Valentia areas and their paleogeographic and neotectonic importance

Authors(s) and Affiliation(s)

GRASSO M. ; PEDLEY M. ; DISTEFANO R. ; CORMACI C. ;

Abstract

The carbonates around the town of Palmi show the most continuous reef developments, which extend for about 5 km in a NNE-SSW direction. This trend is parallel to the strike of the staircased system of normal faults which characterizes the coastline. This fits well with the tectonic evolution of adjacent offshore areas, as established elsewhere from geological and seismic marine studies. - (MR)

Keyword(s)

Corallien ; Miocène ; Paléogéographie ; Néotectonique ; Faille ; Sismique ; Récif ; Roche carbonatée ; Italie ; Calabria

Coral reef ; Miocene ; Palaeogeography ; Neotectonics ; Fault ; Seismic method ; Reef ; Carbonate rock ; Italy ; Calabria

Classification code(s)

531-269 : Géographie physique.

531-VI : EUROPE

531 : BGI / PRODIG.

Source

Article of periodic

published at : Bollettino della Società geologica italiana / ISSN 0037-8763 / CODEN BOGIAT

Editor : Società geologica italiana, Roma - ITALIE (1882- 2008)

Millesime : 1996, vol. 115, n^o1 [pp. 29-38]

Bibliographic references : 20 ref.

Collation : Illustration ;

Language

Anglais

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 5205