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oa Deformational Styles of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Ridge
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, EAGE Conference on Geology and Petroleum Geology of the Mediterranean and Circum-Mediterranean Basins, Oct 2000, cp-109-00030
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-14-6
Abstract
Details of the sea floor and of deformational styles of large portions of the central and eastern Mediterranean Ridge (MR) are revealed in recent 100% coverage swath bathymetry, acoustic imagery, together with continuons seismic profiling.The MR is a wide accretionnary wedge that results from convergente and ongoing incipient collision between Europe, Africa and the Anatolia-Aegea microplate, in Eastern Mediterranean.