Thrust faults and extensional detachment faults in Cretan tectono-stratigraphy: Implications for Middle Miocene extension

Tectonophysics

Volumn 488, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 233-247

  Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a   Vassilakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Crete Island; Crustal extension; Detachment; Hellenides

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; DEFORMATION HISTORY; DETACHMENT FAULT; EARLY MIOCENE; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NAPPE STACKING; NORMAL FAULTS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOZOIC; PARALLEL STRUCTURES; PERMO-TRIASSIC; SHEAR ZONE; SLIDING SURFACE; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; THRUST FAULTS; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; WALL MOTION;

DEFORMATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

TECTONICS;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; NAPPE; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; PHYLLITE; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST FAULT;

AEGEAN SEA; CRETE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77953870365     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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