Neotectonic and seismological data concerning major active faults, and the stress regimes of Northern Greece

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 260, Issue , 2006, Pages 649-670

  Mountrakis, Demosthenis ^a   Tranos, M ^a   Papazachos, C ^a   Thomaidou, E ^a   Karagianni, E ^a   Vamvakaris, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FAULT ZONE; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748500627     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.260.01.28     Document Type: Article

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