Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution

Tectonically driven exhumation of a young orogen: An example from the southern Apennines, Italy
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Published:January 01, 2006
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Marcello Schiattarella, Paola Di Leo, Paolo Beneduce, Salvatore Ivo Giano, Claudio Martino, 2006. "Tectonically driven exhumation of a young orogen: An example from the southern Apennines, Italy", Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution, Sean D. Willett, Niels Hovius, Mark T. Brandon, Donald M. Fisher
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In many young orogens of the Mediterranean region, Quaternary tectonics and regional uplift are traditionally considered strictly correlated, but few data are actually available for precise calculations of uplift rates. Such quantitative studies are needed to define the relationships between local faulting and large-scale uplift, and to formulate correct hypotheses on the geodynamic scenario in which the regional raising occurred. In addition, data about burial depths of sediments or tectonic loadings suffered by sedimentary and low-grade metamorphic rocks are essential for comparisons with the uplift rates obtained in the same areas. Such comparisons between quite different data sources improve the...
- Apennines
- basins
- Calabria Italy
- Cenozoic
- clay mineralogy
- denudation
- elevation
- erosion features
- erosion rates
- erosion surfaces
- Europe
- exhumation
- faults
- geomorphology
- intermontane basins
- Italy
- landform evolution
- Lucania
- Mediterranean region
- morphometry
- Neogene
- neotectonics
- orogenic belts
- quantitative geomorphology
- Quaternary
- Southern Apennines
- Southern Europe
- structural controls
- tectonics
- Tertiary
- uplifts
- Lagonegro Units