The Pliny-Strabo trench region: A large shear zone resulting from slab tearing

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 188-195

  Özbakir, Ali D ^a   Sengor A M C ^b   Wortel, M J R ^a   Govers, R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hellenic subduction zone; Pliny Strabo trenches; Shear zone; Slab tearing

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; SHEAR ZONE; SLAB TEARING; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; SURFACE EXPRESSION;

GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TECTONICS;

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; P-WAVE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR ZONE; SLAB; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT; TRENCH;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CYPRUS; DODECANESE; GREECE; RHODES [DODECANESE]; RHODES [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84881544249     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.025     Document Type: Article

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