Stratigraphic and structural characteristics of the Romanian Black Sea shelf

Tectonophysics

Volumn 410, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 417-435

  Dinu, C ^a   Wong, H K ^b   Tambrea, D ^c   Matenco, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Rompetrol SA Exploration and Production   (Romania)

^d Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basin formation; Inversion; Sea level changes; Western Black Sea basin

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

PONTIA;

EID: 29744451517     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.04.012     Document Type: Article

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