Western Mediterranean Ridge mud belt correlates with active shear strain at the prism-backstop geological contact

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 861-864

  Chamot Rooke, N ^a   Rabaute, A ^a   Kreemer, C ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Active tectonics; Mediterranean Ridge; Mud volcanism

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACTIVE TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL CONTACT; MUD BELT; MUD VOLCANISM; SHEAR TRAIN;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACTIVE FAULT; DEEP WATER; MUD VOLCANO; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SHEAR STRAIN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23944487050     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21469.1     Document Type: Article

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