Neogene-Recent extension on the eastern flank of Mount Olympus, Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 488, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 282-292

  Nance, R Damian ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensional exhumation; Mount Olympus; Neotectonics; North Aegean; Uplift rates

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BACK-ARC BASIN; BLUESCHISTS; CONTACT ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARLY MIOCENE; EROSIONAL TERRACES; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT OFFSET; FAULT SCARP; GRANITOID GNEISS; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; LATE NEOGENE; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; MYLONITES; NEO GENES; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; OLYMPUS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; PLIOCENE; PROFILE DATA; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT RATE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MOUNTINGS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONATES;

BACKARC BASIN; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; NEOGENE; NEOTECTONICS; PASSIVE MARGIN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

GREECE; MOUNT OLYMPUS; THESSALY;

EID: 77953811695     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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