A new orogenic model for the External Hellenides

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 260, Issue , 2006, Pages 507-520

  Doutsos, T ^a   Koukouvelas, Iannis K ^a   Xypolias, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748488907     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.260.01.21     Document Type: Article

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