Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4690016 | Sedimentary Geology | 2011 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
The horse-shoe shape of the platform and its margins, rectilinear for long tracts, are explained by the existence of a network of extensional faults, whose activity lasted for part of the growth of the platform. The Latemar is thus a polygonal, fault-block platform controlled by synsedimentary tectonics. The resulting sedimentary architecture is that of a growth wedge, deposited probably on the uplifted side of a submerged half graben. Continuous reactivation of faults at platform margins locally determined anomalous facies transitions, with well layered platform interior directly in contact with the clinostratified slopes.
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Authors
Nereo Preto, Marco Franceschi, Giovanni Gattolin, Matteo Massironi, Alberto Riva, Pierparide Gramigna, Luca Bertoldi, Sergio Nardon,