Structural architecture of the Rhodes Basin: A deep depocentre that evolved since the Pliocene at the junction of Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs, eastern Mediterranean

Marine Geology

Volumn 258, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Hall, J ^a   Aksu, A E ^a   Yaltirak, C ^b   Winsor, J D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

eastern Mediterranean; Fethiye Burdur Fault zone; Pliny Strabo Fault zone; Rhodes Basin; tectonics, basin evolution

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FETHIYE-BURDUR FAULT ZONE; PLINY-STRABO FAULT ZONE; RHODES BASIN; TECTONICS, BASIN EVOLUTION;

DEFORMATION; SUBSIDENCE;

TECTONICS;

AFRICAN PLATE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONVERGENCE; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MESSINIAN; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); RHODES BASIN;

LYCIA;

EID: 60349084863     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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