Tsunamigenic sources in an active European half-graben (Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece)

Marine Geology

Volumn 232, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 35-47

  Stefatos, Aristofanis ^a   Charalambakis, Marinos ^a   Papatheodorou, George ^a   Ferentinos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corinth, Greece; offshore faulting; offshore slide; tsunami

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC SEAFLOOR DISPLACEMENTS; OFFSHORE FAULTING; OFFSHORE SLIDES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

TSUNAMIS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GRABEN; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748938021     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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