Transverse fault zones of subtle geomorphic signature in northern Evia island (central Greece extensional province): An introduction to the Quaternary Nileas graben

Geomorphology

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 363-374

  Palyvos, Nikolaos ^a   Bantekas, Ioannis ^b   Kranis, Haralambos ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Dynamic   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central Greece; Digital elevation models; Evia (Euboea) Island; GIS; Neotectonics; Tectonic geomorphology (morphotectonics)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRABEN; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

CENTRAL GREECE; EUBOEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747131897     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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