Fast extension but little exhumation: The Vari detachment in the Cyclades, Greece

Geological Magazine

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-252

  Ring, Uwe ^a   Thomson, Stuart N ^b   Bröcker, Michael ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyclades; Detachment faults; Exhumation; Fission track dating; Greece

Indexed keywords

APATITE; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

CYCLADES; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; FISSION-TRACK DATING; GREECE;

FISSION REACTIONS;

BLUESCHIST; COOLING; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC BELT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CYCLADES; GREECE;

EID: 0041811768     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756803007799     Document Type: Article

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