Kinematics of rock flow in a crustal-scale shear zone: Implication for the orogenic evolution of the southwestern Hellenides

Geological Magazine

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-96

  Xypolias, P ^a   Doutsos, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL-SCALE SHEAR ZONES; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; INDENTATION PROCESS; OROGENIC EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TECTONIC EXTRUSION;

SHEAR FLOW;

KINEMATICS; OROGENY; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONICS;

GREECE;

EID: 0034066381     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800003496     Document Type: Article

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