The Cyprus Arc eastern bend. Morphostructural characteristics at plates boundary from data of the BLAC survey (2003);La branche orientale de l'arc de Chypre. Morphostructure d'une frontière de plaques d'après les résultats de la campagne BLAC (2003)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 337, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1075-1083

  Benkhelil, Jean ^a   Bayerly, Mazhar ^b   Branchoux, Stéphane ^a   Courp, Thierry ^a   Gonthier, Eliane ^c   Hübscher, Christian ^d   Maillard, Agnès ^e   Tahchi, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b TISHREEN UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Convergence; Cyprus Arc; Messinian; Seismic reflection; Swath bathymetry; Wrenching

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; WRENCH FAULT;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 26444608612     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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