From syn- to post-orogenic Tertiary extension in the north Aegean region: Constraints on the kinematics in the easternRhodope-Thrace, Bulgaria-Greece and the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 291, Issue , 2007, Pages 113-142

  Bonev, Niki ^a   Beccaletto, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERTIARY;

BALIKESIR [TURKEY]; BIGA PENINSULA; BULGARIA; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RHODOPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THRACE; TURKEY;

EID: 38749094140     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP291.6     Document Type: Article

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