Active submarine tectonism and formation of the Gulf of Saros, Northeast Aegean Sea, inferred from multi-channel seismic reflection data

Marine Geology

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 13-26

  Kurt, H ^a   Demirbag E ^a   Kuscu I ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Mineral Research and Exploration   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Gulf of Saros; North Aegean trough; North Anatolian fault; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TROUGH;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034655283     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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