Post-early Messinian counterclockwise rotations on Crete: Implications for late Miocene to recent kinematics of the southern Hellenic arc

Tectonophysics

Volumn 298, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 177-189

  Duermeijer, C E ^a   Krijgsman, W ^a   Langereis, C G ^a   Ten Veen, J H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Counterclockwise rotation; Crete; Hellenic arc; Messinian; Palaeomagnetic rotations

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; KINEMATICS; MESSINIAN; TECTONIC ROTATION;

GREECE;

EID: 0032583009     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00183-8     Document Type: Article

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