Evolution of the Pelagonian carbonate platform complex and the adjacent oceanic realm in response to plate tectonic forcing (Late Triassic and Jurassic), Evvoia, Greece

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1317-1334

  Scherreiks, Rudolph ^a   Bosence, Dan ^b   BouDagher Fadel, Marcelle ^c   Meléndez, Guillermo ^e   Baumgartner, Peter O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arc uplift; Carbonate platforms; Incipient platform drowning; Ophiolite obduction; Plate collision

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; COLLISION ZONE; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; OBDUCTION; OPHIOLITE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; RADIOLARITE; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TRIASSIC; TURBIDITE; UPLIFT;

CENTRAL GREECE; EUBOEA; GREECE;

EID: 77955693474     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-009-0461-1     Document Type: Article

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