Rifting and shallow-dipping detachments, clues from the Corinth Rift and the Aegean

Tectonophysics

Volumn 483, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 287-304

  Jolivet, Laurent ^a,b   Labrousse, Loïc ^a   Agard, Philippe ^a   Lacombe, Olivier ^a   Bailly, Vivien ^a   Lecomte, Emmanuel ^a   Mouthereau, Frédéric ^a   Mehl, Caroline ^c  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Aegean; Corinth; Detachment; Phyllite Quartzite; Post orogenic extension; Rifting

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FOCAL MECHANISM; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MICROSEISMICITY; NORMAL FAULTS; PHYLLITE; PLIOCENE; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; UPPER CRUST;

KINEMATICS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DECOLLEMENT; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENY; PHYLLITE; PLIOCENE; QUARTZITE; RIFTING; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE;

EID: 77149174481     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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