Multiple generations of extensional detachments in the Rhodope Mountains (northern Greece): Evidence of episodic exhumation of high-pressure rocks

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 204, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-178

  Krohe, Alexander ^a   Mposkos, Evripidis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; ORE DEPOSIT; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTING;

GREECE;

RHODOPE; STRYMON;

EID: 0037004911     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.204.01.10     Document Type: Article

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