Crustal rheology and seismicity in the Gibraltar Arc (western Mediterranean)

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Fernandez Ibanez F ^a,b   Soto, J I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^b Geomechanics International   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE MEDIUM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; STRENGTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GIBRALTAR; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50649086340     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002192     Document Type: Article

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