Evidence for Neotethys rooted within the Vardar suture zone from the Voras Massif, northernmost Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 381, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 143-173

  Brown, Sally A M ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greece; Ophiolite; Suture; Tectonic models; Tethys; Vardar zone; Voras Massif

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OPHIOLITE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TETHYS;

BALKANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VORAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 1842557693     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2002.06.001     Document Type: Article

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