Formation and fragmentation of a late Miocene supradetachment basin in central Crete: Implications for exhumation mechanisms of high-pressure rocks in the Aegean forearc

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 678-701

  Zachariasse, Willem Jan ^a   van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^b,c   Fortuin, Anne Rutger ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CHRONOLOGY; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; HANGING WALL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

CRETE; GREECE;

EID: 80053561358     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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