A model for the hellenic subduction zone in the area of Crete based on seismological investigations

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 291, Issue , 2007, Pages 183-199

  Meier, T ^a   Becker, D ^a   Endrun, B ^a   Rische, M ^a   Bohnhoff, M ^b   Stockhert B ^a   Harjes, H P ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; HORST; LITHOSPHERE; MOHO; PLATE BOUNDARY; RUPTURE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SURFACE WAVE; UPLIFT;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38549145843     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP291.9     Document Type: Article

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