The Mediterranean Basins
Subtitle: Tertiary Extension Within the Alpine Orogen (Geological Society Special Publication)
Contributors: Geological Society of London (Corporate Author); Integrated Basin Studies Project (Corporate Author); Bernard Durand (Editor); Laurent Jolivet (Editor); Frank Horvath (Editor); Michel Seranne (Editor)
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781862390331
Subjects: Geophysics; Oceanography (seas); Petroleum geology; Petrology; Science; Sociology; Mediterranean Sea; Earth Sciences - General; Earth Sciences - Geography; Alps Region; Basins (Geology); Cenozoic; Geology, Stratigraphic; Mediterranean Region; Orogenic belts
Description: "The coexistence in space and time of growing mountain belts and actively extending basins poses a number of yet unsolved questions in terms of mechanics. This problem is particularly crucial in the Mediterranean regions, where all Cenozoic basins opened in the internal zones of mountain belts." "This volume brings together contributions from geologists and geophysicists in the quest to solve the complex dynamic problem posed by the Mediterranean region. It presents a wealth of new data on various topics centred on the Mediterranean region from the deep mantle structure to the detailed geometry of sedimentary basins."--BOOK JACKET.