Post-messinian evolution of the florence rise area (western cyprus arc) part ii: Experimental modeling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 591, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-151

  Sellier, N C ^a   Vendeville, B C ^a   Loncke, L ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CEFREM   (France)

Author keywords

Deep seated tectonics; Eastern mediterranean; Florence rise; Physical modeling; Salt tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DISPLACEMENT PATTERNS; DISTAL REGIONS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; FLORENCE; NORMAL FAULTS; PHYSICAL MODELING;

DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; SALT TECTONICS; TECTONICS;

BUILDINGS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASEMENT ROCK; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; MESSINIAN; NORMAL FAULT; SALT TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEAMOUNT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

CYPRUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 84875530181     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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