Disruption of the Hellenic arc: Late Miocene extensional detachment faults and steep Pliocene-Quaternary normal faults - Or what happened at Corinth?

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Papanikolaou, Dimitrios J ^a   Royden, Leigh H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PLIOCENE; SUBSIDENCE;

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

EID: 37549023015     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002007     Document Type: Article

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