Geodynamic connection between the indentation of Arabia and the Neogene tectonics of the central-eastern Mediterranean region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 15-41

  Mantovani, Enzo ^a   Viti, Marcello ^a   Babbucci, Daniele ^a   Tamburelli, Caterina ^a   Albarello, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Back arc basins; Continental deformation; Mediterranean geodynamics; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; TECTONICS;

BACK-ARC BASIN; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION PATTERN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LITHOSPHERIC DOMAINS; REGIONAL DEFORMATIONS;

GEODYNAMICS;

ARABIAN PLATE; BACKARC BASIN; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; INDENTATION; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGENE; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TETHYS; UPPER CRUST; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ANATOLIA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; CARPATHIANS; TURKEY;

EID: 73949128586     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(02)     Document Type: Article

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