Neogene brittle detachment faulting on kos (e greece): Implications for a southern break-away fault of the menderes metamorphic core complex (western turkey)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 311, Issue , 2009, Pages 311-320

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a   Boekhout, Flora ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; MONZONITE; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE;

DODECANESE; GREECE; KOS; MENDERES MASSIF; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 72049103187     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP311.12     Document Type: Article

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