Roll-back controlled vertical movements of outer-arc basins of the Hellenic subduction zone (Crete, Greece)

Basin Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 243-266

  Ten Veen, J H ^a,b   Postma, G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GREECE;

EID: 0033194356     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1999.00098.x     Document Type: Article

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