Architecture and Late Pliocene to recent evolution of outer-arc basins of the Hellenic subduction zone(south-central Crete, Greece)

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-55

  Peterek, Andreas ^a   Schwarze, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; NEOTECTONICS; PLIOCENE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444264902     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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