Kinematics of conjugate shear zones, displacement partitioning and fragmentation of the upper rigid crust during denudation of high-P rocks (Pelagonian and Sub-Pelagonian Zones, Greece)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 473, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 84-98

  Diamantopoulos, A ^a   Krohe, A ^b   Mposkos, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cataclastic flow; Detachment; Hellenides; Kinematics; Non coaxial strain; Shear zones

Indexed keywords

CATACLASTIC FLOW; DETACHMENT; HELLENIDES; NON-COAXIAL STRAIN; SHEAR ZONES;

KINEMATICS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FRAGMENTATION; KINEMATICS; LITHOLOGY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; UPPER CRUST;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649388396     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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