Along strike changes in the structural evolution over a brittle detachment fault: Example of the Pleistocene Corinth-Patras rift (Greece)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 403, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 77-94

  Flotté, Nicolas ^a   Sorel, Denis ^a   Müller, Carla ^b   Tensi, Julien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Corinth; Detachment fault; Greece; Patras; Pleistocene; Rifting; Synrift sedimentation; Transfer faults

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT GEOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; RIFT ZONE; TRANSFER ZONE;

GULF OF CORINTH; GULF OF PATRAS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 21044434038     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.03.015     Document Type: Article

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