Incipient continental collision and plate-boundary curvature: Late Pliocene - Holocene transtenstional Hellenic forearc, Crete, Greece

J.H. ten Veen, K.L. Kleinspehn

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    Abstract

    Geodynamic controls on Late Pliocene-Holocene kinematics of the Hellenic forearc are assessed using the fan-deltaic basin fill of the Messaras forearc basin of south-central Crete. Previously unrecognized 070° sinistral faults developed in wrench-dominated transtension with strike-slip:normal-slip ratios of 10:1 to 100:1. Coeval folds developed in proximity to the 070° sinistral faults during deposition of the Galini Formation, making them candidates to have developed in transtension, and new chronostratigraphic and
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-21
    Number of pages21
    JournalJournal of the Geological Society (London)
    Volume160
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

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