Thermochronology of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: Implications for the speed of tectonic processes

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-262

  Thomson, Stuart N ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a   Brix, Manfred R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; LOW TEMPERATURES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC PROCESS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNROOFING; SUBDUCTION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE; CRETE;

EID: 0031843655     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0259:TOTHPM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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