Tectonic elements controlling the evolution of the Gulf of Saros (northeastern Aegean Sea, Turkey)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 300, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 227-248

  Yaltirak, Cenk ^a   Alpar, Bedri ^b   Yüce, Hüseyin ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Inst of Mar Sci and Management ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Escape tectonics; Gulf of Saros; North Aegean Sea; North Anatolian Fault Zone; Shallow seismic; Thrace Fault Zone

Indexed keywords

RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032585449     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00242-X     Document Type: Article

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