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Compressional origin of the Aegean Orogeny, Greece

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The Aegean Sea area is thought to be an actively extending back-arc region, north of the present day Hellenic volcanic arc and north-dipping subduction zone in the Eastern Mediterranean. The area shows extensive normal faulting, ductile ‘extensional’ shear zones and extensional S-C fabrics throughout the islands that have previously been related to regional Aegean extension associated with slab rollback on the Hellenic Subduction Zone. In this paper, we question this interpretat...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.gsf.2020.07.008

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
EARTH SCIENCES
Sub department:
Earth Sciences
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6904-6398


Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
Geoscience Frontiers More from this journal
Volume:
13
Issue:
2
Article number:
101049
Publication date:
2020-08-07
Acceptance date:
2020-07-15
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ISSN:
1674-9871


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1135299
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pubs:1135299
Deposit date:
2020-12-01

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