Timing of tectonic emplacement of the ophiolites and terrane paleogeography in the Hellenides

Lithos

Volumn 108, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 262-280

  Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; Crete; Lesvos; Ophiolite obduction; Vardar; Volvi

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; OBDUCTION; OCEAN BASIN; OPHIOLITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; TETHYS;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIDES; LESBOS; MACEDONIA [SOUTHERN EUROPE]; NORTHERN AEGEAN; PINDUS MOUNTAINS; SKOPJE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 59849105475     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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