Fission track data from the Mesohellenic Trough and the Pelagonian zone in NW Greece: Cenozoic tectonics and exhumation of source areas

International Geology Review

Volumn 52, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 223-248

  Vamvaka, Agni ^a,b   Spiegel, Cornelia ^c   Frisch, Wolfgang ^c   Danišík, Martin ^d   Kilias, Adamantios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Fission track dating; Greece; Mesohellenic Trough; Pelagonian microcontinent; Sediment provenance

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; EOCENE; EROSION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; PALEOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TROUGH; ZIRCON;

GREECE;

EID: 75749086176     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206810802674402     Document Type: Article

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