Alpine architecture and kinematics of deformation of the northern Pelagonian nappe pile in the Hellenides

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-28

  Kilias, Adamantios ^a   Frisch, Wolfgang ^b   Avgerinas, Asterios ^a   Dunkl, Istvan ^c   Falalakis, George ^a   Gawlick, Hans Jürgen ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Compression; Extension; Hellenides; Pelagonian nappe; Vardar Axios Zone

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IMBRICATION; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; NAPPE; NORMAL FAULT; OBDUCTION; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GREECE; HELLENIDES; MACEDONIA [GREECE];

EID: 77954222337     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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