Exhumation and doming of the Thasos metamorphic core complex (S Rhodope, Greece): Structural and geochronological constraints

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 301-332

  Wawrzenitz, Nicole ^a   Krohe, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ductile formation; Extension tectonics; Greece; Rb Sr; U Pb

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; TECTONICS;

GREECE;

EID: 0031830617     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00276-X     Document Type: Article

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