High-pressure metamorphism in the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean: Underplating and exhumation from the Late Cretaceous until the Miocene to Recent above the retreating Hellenic subduction zone

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Ring, Uwe ^a   Layer, Paul W ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aegean; Exhumation; Greece; Microstructures blueschists

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BLUESCHIST; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; PETROGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; UNDERPLATING;

(WEST); AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 0042718665     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001350     Document Type: Article

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