Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat

Tectonophysics

Volumn 597-598, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-33

  Jolivet, Laurent ^a,b   Faccenna, Claudio ^c   Huet, Benjamin ^d   Labrousse, Loïc ^e   Le Pourhiet, Laetitia ^e   Lacombe, Olivier ^e   Lecomte, Emmanuel ^e   Burov, Evguenii ^e   Denèle, Yoann ^f   Brun, Jean Pierre ^g   Philippon, Mélody ^g   Paul, Anne ^h   Salaün, Gwenaëlle ^h   Karabulut, Hayrullah ⁱ   Piromallo, Claudia ^j   Monié, Patrick ^k   Gueydan, Frédéric ^k   Okay, Aral I ^l   Oberhänsli, Roland ^m   Pourteau, Amaury ^m   Augier, Romain ^a   Gadenne, Leslie ^a   Driussi, Olivier ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UMR 7327   (France)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^f Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

ⁱ BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^l ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^m UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Asthenospheric flow; Backarc extension; Metamorphic core complex; Slab retreat; Strain localisation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; FAULTING;

AEGEAN SEA; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; BACK-ARC EXTENSIONS; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; SLAB RETREAT; STRAIN LOCALISATION;

GEODYNAMICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EOCENE; FAULT ZONE; SLAB; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRENCH; VISCOSITY;

AEGEAN SEA; ANATOLIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 84877813841     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.011     Document Type: Review

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