Kinematics of back-arc inversion of the Western Black Sea Basin

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Munteanu, I ^a,b   Matenco, L ^b   Dinu, C ^a,b   Cloetingh, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; TECTONICS;

BACK-ARC; BACK-ARC BASIN; BLACK SEA; CENOZOIC; COLLISIONAL PROCESS; COMPRESSIONAL; DEFORMATION FEATURE; GENERALIZED INVERSION; LATE EOCENE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC PROFILES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THRUST SYSTEMS; UPLIFTED AREAS; VERGENCES;

GEOMETRY;

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; UPLIFT;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 80053091406     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002865     Document Type: Article

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