Reverse slip along the contact phyllite-quartzite unit/tripolitsa unit in eastern Crete: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the external hellenides

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geowissenschaften

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-398

  Klein, Thomas ^a   Reichhardt, Henning ^b   Klinger, Luise ^a   Grigull, Susanne ^c   Wostal, Georg ^d   Kowalczyk, Gotthard ^a   Zulauf, Gernold ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crete; Detachment fault; Phyllite quartzite unit; Strain analysis; Tripolitsa unit

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959316843     PISSN: 18601804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1860-1804/2008/0159-0375     Document Type: Article

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