Slope failure repetition in active margin environments: Constraints from submarine landslides in the Hellenic fore arc, eastern Mediterranean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Strozyk, Frank ^a,b   Strasser, Michael ^a   Frster, Annika ^a   Kopf, Achim ^a   Huhn, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; FOREARC BASIN; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

GREECE;

EID: 77956071690     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006841     Document Type: Article

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