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Un escarpement sous-marin permanent du Lias à l'Eocène, dans la dorsale calcaire Péloritaine (Sicile, Italie)
Jean-pierre BouillinRoberta SommaJean-claude HippolyteThierry DumontRené Mouterdesubject
AmmoniteOcean EngineeringFault scarplanguage.human_languagePaleontologyBasement (geology)PhanerozoiclanguageAlpine orogenyMesozoicCenozoicPaleogeneEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsGeologydescription
The schistosity of the Palaeozoic basement of the Capo San Andrea unit (Peloritan Dorsale) is cut by Liassic to Eocene neptunian dykes which developed along a pelagic fault scarp exposed on the sea bottom for 140 My. The Mesozoic structures determined the location of the Alpine deformation.
year | journal | country | edition | language |
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1999-03-01 | Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science |