The hellenic subduction system: High-pressure metamorphism, exhumation, normal faulting, and large-scale extension

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 45-76

  Ring, Uwe ^a,d   Glodny, Johannes ^b   Will, Thomas ^a   Thomson, Stuart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aegean sea; Extrusion wedge; Geochronology; Greece; Metamorphic core complex; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; ARC MAGMATISM; CENOZOIC HISTORY; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; COOLING AGE; CYCLADES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FISSION TRACK; GREECE; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS; THERMAL PROFILES;

EXTRUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DISCONTINUITY; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; SUBDUCTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MYA;

EID: 74949089816     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.050708.170910     Document Type: Article

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