Unravelling provenance from Eocene-Oligocene sandstones of the Thrace Basin, North-east Greece

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1988-2011

  Caracciolo, Luca ^a   Critelli, Salvatore ^a   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^b   Kolios, Niko ^c   Manetti, Piero ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eocene Oligocene; Magmatism; North east Greece; Rhodope Massif; Sandstone detrital modes; Thrace Basin

Indexed keywords

EOCENE-OLIGOCENE; MAGMATISMS; NORTH-EAST GREECE; RHODOPE; THRACE BASIN;

BUILDINGS; EROSION; GEODYNAMICS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

SANDSTONE;

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EOCENE; GEODYNAMICS; MAGMATISM; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

GREECE; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS; THRACE BASIN;

EID: 81855192798     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01248.x     Document Type: Article

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