Geometry and kinematics of Mykonos detachment, Cyclades, Greece: Evidence for slip at shallow dip

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lecomte, Emmanuel ^a   Jolivet, Laurent ^a   Lacombe, Olivier ^a   Denèle, Yoann ^a   Labrousse, Loic ^a   Le Pourhiet, Laetitia ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GRANITE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AEGEAN SEA; CYCLADES; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; DUCTILE STRUCTURES; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRANITE INTRUSIONS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LAST STAGE; LATE MIOCENE; METABASITES; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULTS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHEAR ZONE; SHEARING DEFORMATION; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; SYN-RIFT;

DEFORMATION;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE;

AEGEAN SEA; CYCLADAS; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MYKONOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; TINOS;

EID: 77957731603     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002564     Document Type: Article

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