The black Sea back-arc basin: Insights to its origin from geodynamic models of modern analogues

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 340, Issue , 2010, Pages 11-21

  Stephenson, Randell ^a   Schellart, Wouter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; GRABEN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PRECAMBRIAN; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

BLACK SEA; EUROPE;

EID: 78751582956     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP340.2     Document Type: Article

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