Slab detachment beneath eastern Anatolia: A possible cause for the formation of the North Anatolian fault

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 85-97

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Bellier, Olivier ^b   Martinod, Joseph ^c   Piromallo, Claudia ^d   Regard, Vincent ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analogue experiments; Collision; Mediterranean; Seismic tomography; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE EXPERIMENTS; DEEP DEFORMATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB DETACHMENT; VOLCANISM;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

DETACHMENT FAULT; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 31344443139     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.046     Document Type: Article

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