Active faulting on the island of Crete (Greece)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-126

  Caputo, Riccardo ^a   Catalano, Stefano ^b   Monaco, Carmelo ^b   Romagnoli, Gino ^b   Tortorici, Giuseppe ^b   Tortorici, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Europe; Fractures and faults; Seismicity and tectonics; Subduction zone processes; Tectonics and landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTING; CO-EXISTENCE; COMPLEX FAULTS; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CUMULATIVE AMOUNT; EUROPE; FAULT KINEMATICS; FAULT SET; FOREARC; HOLOCENES; LATE QUATERNARY; NORMAL FAULTS; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL MAPPING; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; US GOVERNMENT;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; GEODYNAMICS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

AEGEAN SEA; CRETE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NUBIA;

EID: 78349264292     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04749.x     Document Type: Article

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