The Hellenic subduction system: high-pressure metamorphism, exhumation, normal faulting, and large-scale extension

U Ring, J Glodny, T Will… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The Cenozoic history of the retreating Hellenic subduction system in the eastern
Mediterranean involves subduction, accretion, arc magmatism, exhumation, normal faulting …

Application of low-temperature thermochronometry to extensional tectonic settings

DF Stockli - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extension and associated tectonic exhumation have been described across a diverse
spectrum of geodynamic environments, ranging from lithospheric-scale extension along …

The geological signature of a slab tear below the Aegean

L Jolivet, A Menant, P Sternai, A Rabillard, L Arbaret… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we explore the geology of the Aegean region in the Miocene to identify the
geological signature of a first-order slab tear observed in all tomographic models. From 15 to …

The north cycladic detachment system

L Jolivet, E Lecomte, B Huet, Y Denèle… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Low-angle normal faults accommodate a large part of continental post-orogenic extension.
Besides the intrinsic rheological characteristics of the continental crust that may lead to the …

What caused the denudation of the Menderes Massif: Review of crustal evolution, lithosphere structure, and dynamic topography in southwest Turkey

K Gessner, LA Gallardo, V Markwitz, U Ring… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The deformation of Earth's lithosphere in orogenic belts is largely forced externally by the
sinking slab, but can also be driven by internal delamination processes caused by …

Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Saghand region of central Iran

C Verdel, BP Wernicke, J Ramezani… - Geological …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An∼ 100-km-long north-south belt of metamorphic core complexes is localized along the
boundary between the Yazd and Tabas tectonic blocks of the central Iranian micro …

High‐pressure metamorphism in the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean: Underplating and exhumation from the Late Cretaceous until the Miocene to Recent above the …

U Ring, PW Layer - Tectonics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We report 40Ar/39Ar ages from various tectonic units in the Aegean and westernmost
Turkey. On the basis of published geochronologic data and our 40Ar/39Ar ages we propose …

Tectonic denudation of a Late Cretaceous–Tertiary collisional belt: regionally symmetric cooling patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of …

UWE Ring, C Johnson, R Hetzel… - Geological …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Thermochronological data reveal that the Late Cretaceous–Tertiary nappe pile of the
Anatolide belt of western Turkey displays a two-stage cooling history. Three crustal …

[HTML][HTML] The Cycladic Blueschist Unit of the Hellenic subduction orogen: Protracted high-pressure metamorphism, decompression and reimbrication of a diachronous …

J Glodny, U Ring - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss the assembly and tectonochronology of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit (CBU) in
the central Aegean Sea region, Greece, as a composite, subduction-related, high-pressure …

Syros Metasomatic Tourmaline: Evidence for Very High-δ11B Fluids in Subduction Zones

HR Marschall, T Ludwig, R Altherr, A Kalt… - Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
High-pressure (HP) metamorphic blocks enclosed in a mafic to ultramafic matrix from a
mélange on the island of Syros are rimmed by tourmaline-bearing reaction zones …