Research Article| March 01, 1987 Is the Adriatic an African promontory? Helen Anderson Helen Anderson 1Department of Earth Sciences, Bullard Laboratories, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CBS 0EZ, England Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Geology (1987) 15 (3): 212–215. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15<212:ITAAAP>2.0.CO;2 Article history first online: 02 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Helen Anderson; Is the Adriatic an African promontory?. Geology 1987;; 15 (3): 212–215. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15<212:ITAAAP>2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract Seismicity patterns and fault-plane solutions for the largest recent earthquakes in the Adriatic region are used to test the hypothesis that the Adriatic is a promontory of the African continental mass. The horizontal projections of the slip vectors for the 24 best constrained focal mechanisms trend at a high angle to those predicted for the Africa-Eurasia collision, and so the Adriatic cannot be thought of as a promontory of Africa. The slip vectors define an instantaneous pole of rotation that describes anticlockwise rotation of the Adriatic relative to Eurasia. The Adriatic is a stable continental block moving within the broad zone of deformation between Africa and Eurasia. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.
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