Palaeogene alluvial-volcaniclastic deposits in the Mesta Basin (SW Bulgaria): Depositional setting and basin evolution

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 321-338

  Siemes, Andreas ^a   McCann, Tom ^a   Fischer, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aegean extension; Alluvial; Detachment fault; Half graben; Southwest Bulgaria; Volcaniclastic

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FAULTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

AEGEAN EXTENSION; ALLUVIAL; BULGARIA; DETACHMENT FAULT; HALF GRABEN; VOLCANICLASTICS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BASIN EVOLUTION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; PALEOGENE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; MESTA BASIN; RHODOPE;

EID: 77952553746     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680999046X     Document Type: Article

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