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Fig. 12

From: Middle-Late Jurassic syndepositional tectonics recorded in the Ligurian Briançonnais succession (Marguareis–Mongioie area, Ligurian Alps, NW Italy)

Fig. 12

Interpretive sketch of the processes leading to the formation of seismites. Seismic shocks and the existence of sloping depositional surfaces triggers the internal disruption of shallow buried sediments, resulting in different fabrics depending on the original relative proportion in thickness of lithified (grey parts) versus unlithified layers (stippled parts), and on the possible occurrence of obstacles impeding the flow of the fluidized sediment

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