Post-orogenic extension and metamorphic core complexes in a heterogeneous crust: The role of crustal layering inherited from collision. Application to the Cyclades (Aegean domain)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 611-625

  Huet, Benjamin ^a,b   Le Pourhiet, Laetitia ^a,b   Labrousse, Loic ^a,b   Burov, Evgenii ^a,b   Jolivet, Laurent ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Back arc basin processes; Continental tectonics: Compressional; Continental tectonics: extensional; Crustal structure; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Rheology: crust and lithosphere

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; BLUESCHISTS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL STRETCHING; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: EXTENSIONAL; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLADES; FIRST-ORDER; FULLY-COUPLED; HIGH PRESSURE; LITHOSPHERIC; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER CRUST; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; RHEOLOGICAL LAYERING;

ELASTICITY; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; VISCOSITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHISM; RHEOLOGY;

CYCLADAS; GREECE; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 78751476694     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04849.x     Document Type: Article

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