Separate Eocene-Early Oligocene and Miocene stages of extension and core complex formation in the Western Rhodopes, Mesta Basin, and Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 487, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 59-84

  Georgiev, Neven ^a   Pleuger, Jan ^b   Froitzheim, Nikolaus ^c   Sarov, Stoyan ^d   Jahn Awe, Silke ^c   Nagel, Thorsten J ^c  

^a Palaeontology and Fossil fuels ^*  (Bulgaria)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Research Institute Geology and Geophysics AD   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Aegaean extension; Core complex; Detachment faulting; Pirin; Rhodope

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; CORE COMPLEX; DETACHMENT FAULTING; EARLY OLIGOCENE; EASTERN SIDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PLANES; FAULT STRIKE; FAULT SYSTEM; GREENSCHIST; LATE EOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MIOCENE; MYLONITES; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTHERN GREECE; PLUTONS; RHODOPE; SLIP DIRECTION; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

LANDFORMS;

TECTONICS;

EOCENE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; FAULTING; GREENSCHIST FACIES; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE;

BULGARIA; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; MESTA BASIN; PIRIN MOUNTAINS; RHODOPE;

EID: 77952548419     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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