Cretaceous-Neogene tectonic evolution of the northern margin of the Black Sea from seismic reflection data and tectonic subsidence analysis

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 340, Issue , 2010, Pages 137-157

  Khriachtchevskaia, O ^a   Stovba, S ^a   Stephenson, R ^b  

^a Naukanaftogaz Scientific Research Institute of National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DATA INTERPRETATION; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; FORELAND BASIN; GRABEN; INVERSION TECTONICS; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; OCEAN BASIN; OROGENY; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BLACK SEA; SEA OF AZOV;

EID: 77955540181     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP340.8     Document Type: Article

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