Paleogene deep-water sedimentation and paleogeography of foreland basins in the NW Peloponnese (Greece)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 503-515

  Kamberis, Evangelos ^a   Pavlopoulos, Andreas ^b   Tsaila Monopolis, Stella ^c   Sotiropoulos, Spilios ^a   Ioakim, Chrysanthi ^d  

^a Hellenic Petroleum   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d IGME   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deep sea fan evolution; Fold and thrust belt; Foreland basins; Greece; NW Peloponnese; Paleogene flysch; Seismic borehole field sedimentary data analysis

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; FORELAND BASIN; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOGENE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PELOPONNESE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 32344444532     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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