Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

SM Schmid, B Fügenschuh, A Kounov, L Maţenco… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a map that correlates tectonic units between Alps and western Turkey
accompanied by a text providing access to literature data, explaining the concepts used for …

[HTML][HTML] Extensional crustal tectonics and crust-mantle coupling, a view from the geological record

L Jolivet, A Menant, C Clerc, P Sternai… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present here a number of geological observations in extensional contexts, either
continental rifts or back-arcs, that show different situations of potential coupling between …

Extraneous argon in high-pressure metamorphic rocks: Distribution, origin and transport in the Cycladic Blueschist Unit (Greece)

V Laurent, B Huet, L Labrousse, L Jolivet, P Monie… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The 40 Ar/39 Ar geochronological technique has significantly contributed to the
study of crustal deformation. However, the frequent occurrence of extraneous argon in high …

Subduction, underplating, and return flow recorded in the Cycladic Blueschist Unit exposed on Syros, Greece

AJ Kotowski, M Cisneros, WM Behr, DF Stockli… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exhumed high‐pressure/low‐temperature (HP/LT) metamorphic rocks provide insights into
deep (∼ 20–70 km) subduction interface dynamics. On Syros Island (Cyclades, Greece), the …

Stretched thin: Oligocene extrusion and ductile thinning of the Basal Unit along the Evia Shear Zone, NW Cyclades, Greece

TA Ducharme, DA Schneider, B Grasemann… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present field‐based structural, geochronological, and petrological evidence for a major
new Oligocene extensional shear zone, the Evia Shear Zone (ESZ), on the island of Evia in …

Miocene postorogenic extension of the Eocene synorogenic imbricated Hellenic subduction channel: New constraints from Milos (Cyclades, Greece)

B Grasemann, B Huet, DA Schneider… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The island of Milos is part of the South Aegean volcanic arc. The volcanic processes on
Milos, which started ca. 3.5 Ma, have been studied in detail, but the limited outcrops of …

Reconstructing the southern Pelagonian domain in the Aegean Sea: Insights from U-Pb detrital zircon analysis, lithostratigraphic and structural study, and zircon (U-Th …

S Laskari, K Soukis, DF Stockli, S Lozios… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Attic-Cycladic Crystalline Complex (Aegean Sea, Greece), following early syn-
convergence exhumation processes, the extensional tectonics resulted in the extreme …

Paleogeographic position of the central Dodecanese Islands, southeastern Greece: The push-pull of Pelagonia

B Grasemann, DA Schneider, K Soukis… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The paleogeographic position of the central Dodecanese Islands at the transition between
the Aegean and Anatolian plates plays a considerable role in understanding the link …

Development and passive exhumation of high-pressure shear zones (Blueschist Unit, Syros): Insights from quartz and columnar calcite microstructures

E Aravadinou, N Gerogiannis, P Xypolias - Journal of Structural Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Quartz and columnar calcite microstructures in two major high-pressure (HP) shear zones
(Syros Island, Greece), which carry meta-igneous rocks over calcite marbles, were studied to …

Calcite pseudomorphs after aragonite: A tool to unravel the structural history of high-pressure marbles (Evia Island, Greece)

N Gerogiannis, E Aravadinou, V Chatzaras… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Calcite pseudomorphs after aragonite were recorded throughout the high-pressure marbles
of the Basal Unit (Evia Island, Greece). The pseudomorphs form a columnar microstructure …