Meditterranean extension and the Africa-Eurasia collision

Tectonics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1095-1106

  Jolivet, Laurent ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; NEOGENE; SUBSIDENCE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034453603     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC900018     Document Type: Article

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