The North Cycladic Detachment System

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 87-104

  Jolivet, Laurent ^a,b   Lecomte, Emmanuel ^a   Huet, Benjamin ^a   Denèle, Yoann ^a   Lacombe, Olivier ^a   Labrousse, Loïc ^a   Le Pourhiet, Laetitia ^a   Mehl, Caroline ^c  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; backarc extension; brittle ductile transition; Cyclades; detachment; gneiss dome

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; BACK-ARC; BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION; CYCLADES; GNEISS DOME;

SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DOMES;

BLUESCHIST; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DETACHMENT FAULT; DOME; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; ISLAND; MIOCENE; NAPPE; NORMAL FAULT; SHEAR ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; THRUST;

AEGEAN SEA; ANDROS; BAHAMAS; CENTRAL GREECE; CYCLADAS; EUBOEA; GREECE; IKARIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; THESSALY; TINOS;

EID: 73249139256     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.032     Document Type: Article

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