Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern Rhodope massif (Bulgaria): Basement structure and kinematics of syn-to postcollisional extensional deformation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 211-235

  Bonev, Nikolay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Basement tectonics; Bulgaria; Eastern rhodope; Extension

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; DOMES; EROSION; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PILES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BULGARIA; COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; LATE OROGENIC EXTENSION; RHODOPE; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS;

FAULTING;

ACCRETION; ALPINE OROGENY; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BASEMENT ROCK; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENUDATION; DOME; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; GRANITOID; GREENSCHIST; HANGING WALL; IMBRICATION; JURASSIC; MIOCENE; MYLONITE; NEOTECTONICS; OROGENIC BELT; PROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BULGARIA; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 37549056312     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(12)     Document Type: Article

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