Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower to middle Miocene half-graben basins related to an extensional detachment fault (western Crete, Greece)

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-47

  Seidel, Markus ^a,c   Seidel, Eberhard ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; HIGH PRESSURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MIOCENE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947698936     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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