Geological and geomorphological evidence of recent coastal uplift along a major Hellenic normal fault system (the Kamena Vourla fault zone, NW Evoikos Gulf, Greece)

Marine Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 156-164

  Cundy, Andrew B ^a   Gaki Papanastassiou, K ^b   Papanastassiou, D ^c   Maroukian, H ^b   Frogley, M R ^d   Cane, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

central Greece; coastal stratigraphy; coastal uplift; earthquakes; normal faulting; sea level

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC UPLIFTS; COASTAL SEDIMENTS; COASTAL STRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL UPLIFT; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT STRANDS; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT ZONE; HIGH RATE; HIGH WATER; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; UPLIFT RATE;

SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; WATER LEVELS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AEGEAN SEA; CENTRAL GREECE; EVVOIKOS GULF; GREECE; GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; KAMENA VOURLA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHTHIOTIS;

EID: 77949569814     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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