Cenozoic tectonics of Macedonia and its relation to the South Balkan extensional regime

Geosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Dumurdzanov, Nikola ^a   Serafimovski, Todor ^a   Clark Burchfiel, B ^b  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balkans; Basins; Extension; Macedonia; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOREARC BASIN; GRABEN; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PULL APART BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

AEGEAN SEA; ALBANIA; BALKANS; HELLENIC TRENCH; MACEDONIA [SOUTHERN EUROPE]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 31344448691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00006.1     Document Type: Article

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