Origin and emplacement of an inferred late Jurassic subduction-accretion complex, Euboea, eastern Greece

Geological Magazine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 27-41

  Robertson, A H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; EMPLACEMENT; JURASSIC; MELANGE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GREECE, EUBOEA;

EID: 0026084074     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800018021     Document Type: Article

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