Tertiary and Quaternary tectonics of Greece

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 125-136

  Mountrakis, Demosthenis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active faults; Exhumation; Geodynamic evolution; Imbrication

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PILES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; EXHUMATION; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL FIELDS; IMBRICATION; LATE OROGENIC EXTENSION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; SMALL EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFRICAN PLATE; BLUESCHIST; CIMMERIAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; EURASIAN PLATE; EXHUMATION; FOCAL MECHANISM; IMBRICATION; MICROPLATE; MIOCENE; NAPPE; NEOTECTONICS; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY; TETHYS; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE; HELLENIC ARC; HELLENIDES; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOUNT OLYMPUS; PELOPONNESE; THESSALY;

EID: 61349177966     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(07)     Document Type: Article

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