Incipient continental collision and plate-boundary curvature: Late Pliocene-Holocene transtensional Hellenic forearc, Crete, Greece

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-181

  Ten Veen, Johan H ^a,b   Kleinspehn, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crete; Forearc basins; Greece; Neotectonics; Transtension

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FOREARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY;

GREECE;

EID: 0037360819     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764902-067     Document Type: Article

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