Collision-related break-up of a carbonate platform (Eratosthenes Seamount) and mud volcanism on the Mediterranean Ridge: preliminary synthesis and implications of tectonic results of ODP Leg 160 in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 131, Issue , 1998, Pages 243-271

  Robertson, A H F ^a   Emeis, K C ^b   Richter, C ^b   Blanc Valleron, M M ^b   Bouloubassi, I ^b   Brumsack, H J ^b   Cramp, A ^b   Di Stefano, G J ^b   Flecker, R ^b   Frankel, E ^b   Howell, M W ^b   Janecek, T R ^b   Jurado, M J ^b   Kemp, A E S ^b   Koizumi, I ^b   Kopf, A ^b   Major, C O ^b   Mart, Y ^b   Pribnow, D F C ^b   Rabaute, A ^b   Roberts, A P ^b   Rullkotter J ^b   Sakamoto, T ^b   Spezzaferri, S ^b   Staerker, T S ^b   Stoner, J S ^b   Whiting, B M ^b   Woodside, J M ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; MUD VOLCANO; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; TECTONICS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032319621     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.131.01.16     Document Type: Article

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