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http://hdl.handle.net/2122/7896| Authors: | Guarnieri, P.* Vinciguerra, S.* |
Title: | FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF A NEOGENE FAULT SYSTEM IN NORTHWESTERN SICILY, ITALY | Journal: | Fractals | Series/Report no.: | 1/12 (2004) | Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Issue Date: | 2004 | Keywords: | Fractal Properties; Correlation Integral; Transcurrent Faults; Sicily | Subject Classification: | 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.09. Structural geology | 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 |
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