OFFSHORE FAULTING IN THE AEGEAN SEA: A SYNTHESIS BASED ON BATHYMETRIC AND SEISMIC PROFILING DATA
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tectonics vintage/new data processing review/reappraisal
Abstract
Twenty five years after a first attempt by Mascle and Martin (1990), this paper aims at delivering an updated and considerably richer, map of the offshore faults in the Aegean Sea. Reinterpretation of vintage analogue seismic profiles, interpretation of new profiles and records of swath bathymetry data made available in the last two decades, as well as relocation of published faults originally interpreted on lowresolution bathymetric maps, on the new, more accurate bathymetric background have enabled the preparation of a more precise and complete map of active faults occurring in the Aegean Sea. This attempt is a first step towards the creation of an offshore faults database.
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Sakellariou, D., & Tsampouraki-Kraounaki, K. (2016). OFFSHORE FAULTING IN THE AEGEAN SEA: A SYNTHESIS BASED ON BATHYMETRIC AND SEISMIC PROFILING DATA. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 50(1), 134–143. https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11712
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