Discrete plio-Pleistocene phases of tilting and counterclockwise rotation in the southeastern Aegean arc (Rhodos, Greece): Early Pliocene formation of the south Aegean left-lateral strike-slip system

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1133-1144

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a,b   Krijgsman, Wout ^a   Langereis, Cor G ^a   Cornée, Jean Jacques ^c   Duermeijer, Charon E ^a   Van Vugt, Nicole ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOREARC BASIN; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; ROTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TILT;

DODECANESE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RHODES; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 35748965296     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-061     Document Type: Article

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