Investigation of Fethiye-Marmaris Bay (SW Anatolia): Seismic and morphologic evidences from the missing link between the Pliny Trench and the Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-28

  Ocakoǧlu, Neslihan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; BATHYMETRIC DATA; COMPRESSIONAL; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EURASIAN PLATES; FAULT ZONE; MULTI-BEAM; NORMAL FAULTS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

ACTIVE FAULT; BATHYMETRY; FAULT ZONE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSTENSION;

FETHIYE BAY; FETHIYE-BURDUR FAULT ZONE; MUGLA; TURKEY;

EID: 84855971083     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0234-2     Document Type: Article

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