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FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF A NEOGENE FAULT SYSTEM IN NORTHWESTERN SICILY, ITALY
Language
English
Obiettivo Specifico
3.2. Tettonica attiva
Status
Published
JCR Journal
N/A or not JCR
Peer review journal
Yes
Title of the book
Issue/vol(year)
1/12 (2004)
ISSN
0218-348X
Electronic ISSN
1793-6543
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Pages (printed)
41-48
Issued date
2004
Keywords
Abstract
A Neogene transcurrent fault system a ecting the Apenninic-Maghrebian thrust belt, located
in northwestern Sicily, has been investigated using fractal analysis. The present-day structural
setting of the sector between the Palermo and Madonie Mountains is the result of the superim-
position, in space and time, of two distinct deformational events, a Miocene southeast-verging
thrusting followed by Messinian to Pliocene strike-slip faulting, which cuts obliquely through
the compressive fronts. The spatial distribution properties of the fault array were investigated
by means of a fractal analysis. Fractal dimension was computed by adopting the correlation
integral method. Fractal ranges have been evidenced between 350 and 3000 m. The fractal di-
mension obtained for the whole array is D = 1:66. The scaling spatial distribution property of
the fault array has been analyzed by calculating the fractal dimension with a moving window
in northwestern Sicily, has been investigated using fractal analysis. The present-day structural
setting of the sector between the Palermo and Madonie Mountains is the result of the superim-
position, in space and time, of two distinct deformational events, a Miocene southeast-verging
thrusting followed by Messinian to Pliocene strike-slip faulting, which cuts obliquely through
the compressive fronts. The spatial distribution properties of the fault array were investigated
by means of a fractal analysis. Fractal dimension was computed by adopting the correlation
integral method. Fractal ranges have been evidenced between 350 and 3000 m. The fractal di-
mension obtained for the whole array is D = 1:66. The scaling spatial distribution property of
the fault array has been analyzed by calculating the fractal dimension with a moving window
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