The effect of early Alpine thrusting in late-stage extensional tectonics: Evidence from the Kulidzhik nappe and the Pelevun extensional allochthon in the Rhodope Massif, Bulgaria

Tectonophysics

Volumn 488, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 256-281

  Bonev, Nikolay ^a   Spikings, Richard ^b   Moritz, Robert ^b   Marchev, Peter ^c  

^a Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski ^*  (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Bulgaria; Early Alpine thrusting; Geochemistry; Rhodope Massif; Tertiary extensional tectonics

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; COMBINED STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL LEVELS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EXTENSIONAL ALLOCHTHON; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GREENSCHIST; ISLAND ARC; ISOCHRON AGE; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; MINERAL CHEMISTRY; NORMAL FAULTS; OLIGOCENE; ORTHOGNEISSES; PHYLLITE; PROTOLITHS; RHODOPE; RHODOPE MASSIF; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC TRANSPORT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENT PATTERNS; WHITE MICA;

ARGON; BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MICA; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; ALLOCHTHON; ALPINE OROGENY; ARGON-ARGON DATING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSCHIST; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; LITHOLOGY; MESOZOIC; NAPPE; ORTHOGNEISS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERTIARY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

BULGARIA; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77953811694     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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