Detachments in high-pressure mountain belts, Tethyan examples

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 31-47

  Jolivet, L ^a,d   Goffe B ^b   Bousquet, R ^b   Oberhansli R ^c   Michard, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS; TETHYS;

GREECE, CRETE;

EID: 0031725666     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00079-X     Document Type: Article

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