Paleostress magnitude in a fold-thrust belt (External Hellenides, Greece): Evidence from twinning in calcareous rocks

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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 245-251

  Xypolias, Paraskevas ^a   Koukouvelas, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLD AND THRUST BELT; STRESS FIELD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 31944446067     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2005/v28i4/002     Document Type: Article

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