Western versus Eastern Black Sea tectonic evolution: Pre-rift lithospheric controls on basin formation

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 139-154

  Spadini, Giacomo ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JKX Oil and Gas   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin modelling; Black Sea; Pre rift lithosphere; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN MODELLING; CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERE; PALAEOCENE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; RHEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 0030389668     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00187-4     Document Type: Article

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