A new geological map of the Island of Syros (Aegean Sea, Greece): Implications for lithostratigraphy and structural history of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 481, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-43

  Keiter, Mark ^a   Ballhaus, Chris ^b   Tomaschek, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUESCHIST; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITION; DUCTILITY; ECLOGITE; FOLDING; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METASEDIMENT; MIOCENE; PROTOLITH;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AEGEAN SEA; CYCLADES; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SYROS;

EID: 84856548235     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2481     Document Type: Review

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