Core-complex-related extension of the Aegean Hthosphere initiated at the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Forster, Marnie ^a   Lister, Gordon ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EOCENE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; TECTONICS;

CYCLADAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IOS; SANTORIN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

THERA;

EID: 66149184430     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005382     Document Type: Article

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