Analysis of geometry of volcanoes and faults in Terceira Island (Azores): Evidence for reactivation tectonics at the EUR/AFR plate boundary in the Azores triple junction

Tectonophysics

Volumn 465, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 98-113

  Navarro, A ^a   Lourenco N ^a,b   Chorowicz, J ^c   Miranda, J M ^a   Catalao J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b Portuguese Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf (EMEPC)   (Portugal)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Azores Triple Junction; Extension fractures; Remote Sensing; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AZORES TRIPLE JUNCTION; BATHYMETRIC DATUM; DEFORMATION PATTERNS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; EURASIA; EXTENSION FRACTURES; FAULT ZONES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; HOT SPOTS; LATE PLIOCENE; OCEANIC ISLANDS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MOTIONS; RADIAL PATTERNS; RELATIVE MOTIONS; RIFT FAULTS; SANTA BARBARA; SHAPE PATTERNS; STRUCTURAL DATUM; TECTONIC STRUCTURES; TERCEIRA; VOLCANIC EDIFICES; WORK FOCUS;

FRACTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE RECORDING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TECTONICS;

VOLCANOES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRIPLE JUNCTION; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES TRIPLE JUNCTION; EURASIA; TERCEIRA RIFT;

EID: 60749130757     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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