Eastern Mediterranean basin systems

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 263-276

  Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a   Woodside, John ^b   Lodolo, Emanuele ^c   Gardosh, Michael ^d   Grasso, Mario ^e   Camerlenghi, Angelo ^c   Vai, Gian Battista ^f  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^d GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^f Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico Ambientali   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORMATION MECHANISM; MIOCENE; OCEAN BASIN; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33846057020     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.15     Document Type: Article

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