Evidence from the Mesta half-graben, SW Bulgaria, for the Late Eocene beginning of Aegean extension in the Central Balkan Peninsula

Tectonophysics

Volumn 375, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 61-76

  Burchfiel, B C ^a   Nakov, R ^b   Tzankov, T ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Aegean extension; Detachment faulting; Southwest Bulgaria

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; UNCONFORMITY;

(SOUTHWEST); BULGARIA;

EID: 0242574536     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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