Segmentation of the Hellenides recorded by Pliocene initiation of clockwise block rotation in Central Greece

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 6-19

  Bradley, Kyle E ^a   Vassilakis, Emmanuel ^b   Hosa, Aleksandra ^a   Weiss, Benjamin P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; Paleomagnetism; Rotation; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN; AEGEAN SEA; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; EARLY MIOCENE; FAULT SYSTEM; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; IONIAN SEA; LARGE PARTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; SUBDUCTION; THRUST BELTS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; WESTERN GREECE;

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOMAGNETISM; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

ROTATION;

BLOCK ROTATION; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST; TRANSFORM FAULT;

AEGEAN SEA; CENTRAL GREECE; GREECE; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN GREECE;

EID: 84871392716     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.043     Document Type: Article

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