Active faulting in the north Aegean basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 189-209

  Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a   Alexandri, Matina ^b   Nomikou, Paraskevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Marine geology; North anatolian fault; Northern Greece; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MAPS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; COMPLEX DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL PLATFORMS; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; NORTHERN GREECE; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPLIFT;

GREECE; IONIAN SEA; MAGNESIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELION; THESSALY;

EID: 73949087310     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(11)     Document Type: Article

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