Miocene high-pressure metamorphic rocks of Crete, Greece: rapid exhumation by buoyant escape

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 154, Issue , 1999, Pages 87-107

  Thomson, Stuart N ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a   Brix, Manfred R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHIST; EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS;

GREECE;

EID: 0343852211     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.154.01.04     Document Type: Article

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