Reconstruction of retreating mass wasting in response to progressive slope steepening of the northeastern Cretan margin, eastern Mediterranean

Marine Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 44-54

  Strozyk, Frank ^a   Strasser, Michael ^a   Krastel, Sebastian ^b   Meyer, Mathias ^b   Huhn, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cretan Sea; landslides; mass wasting; slope architecture; slope failure

Indexed keywords

DOWNSLOPE; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FORE-ARC BASIN; FOREARC; IN-BETWEEN; MARGIN SETTING; MASS FLOW; MASS TRANSPORT DEPOSIT; MASS WASTING; MASS-WASTING EVENTS; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NEOTECTONICS; PRE-CONDITIONING; REFLECTION SEISMIC; SEDIMENT EROSION; SHORT DISTANCES; SLOPE ANGLES; SLOPE ARCHITECTURE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE POSITIONS;

RELOCATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

LANDSLIDES;

FOREARC BASIN; KINEMATICS; LANDSLIDE; MASS TRANSPORT; MASS WASTING; MORPHOMETRY; NEOTECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

CRETAN SHELF; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77949568267     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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