Geomorphologic features related to gravitational collapse: Submarine landsliding to lateral spreading on a Late Miocene-Quaternary slope (SE Crete, eastern Mediterranean)

Geomorphology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 13-33

  Alves, Tiago M ^a   Lourenço, Sérgio D N ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal slip planes; Eastern Mediterranean; Lateral spreading; Submarine landsliding; Toe thrusting

Indexed keywords

FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LITHOLOGY; MELANGE; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SUBMARINE SLOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

CRETE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 77956338935     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.04.030     Document Type: Article

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