Unique features of the Cenozoic igneous rocks of Greece

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 259-282

  Pe Piper, Georgia ^a   Piper, David J W ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Paleogeography; Petrogenesis; Plutonism; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; GEODYNAMICS; MELTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROGENESIS; PLUTONISM; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES; VOLCANISM;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DECOMPRESSION; EVOLUTION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; IGNEOUS ROCK; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MELTING; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROGENESIS; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION; UPWELLING; VOLCANISM;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; ANATOLIA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; CYCLADES; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; RHODOPE; TURKEY;

EID: 73949109318     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(14)     Document Type: Article

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