Thrust sequences in the central part of the External Hellenides

Geological Magazine

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 661-668

  Sotiropoulos, Spilios ^a   Kamberis, Evangelos ^a   Triantaphyllou, Maria V ^b   Doutsos, Theodor ^c  

^a Hellenic Petroleum SA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fold and thrust belts; Hellenides; Propagation; Thrust faults

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ADDITIONAL LOADS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; HELLENIDES; OUT OF SEQUENCES; SEISMIC PROFILES; STRUCTURAL MAPS; THRUST FAULTS;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; OROGENY; STRATIGRAPHY; THRUST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIC ARC; HELLENIDES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342289973     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756803008367     Document Type: Article

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