Fault structure and related basins of the North Aegean Sea and its surroundings

Tectonics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 10-1-10-17

  Koukouvelas, Ioannis K ^a,b   Aydin, Atilla ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; North Aegean basins; Strike slip faults; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84929854542     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC901037     Document Type: Article

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