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 …

The Aegean region is a concentrate of the main geodynamic processes that shaped the
Mediterranean region: oceanic and continental subduction, mountain building, high …

The balance between the subduction of carbonate mineral-bearing rocks into Earth's mantle
and the return of CO2 to the atmosphere by volcanic and metamorphic degassing,,, is critical …

Using the peri-Mediterranean blueschist belts as a case study we discuss the mechanisms
of syn-orogenic exhumation of high-pressure (HP) and ultra-highpressure (UHP) rocks. The …

Miocene extension in the Aegean Sea was accompanied by the intrusion of granitoid and
monzonitic magmas at upper crustal levels. With increasing distance from the trench, the …

Metamorphic devolatilization of subducted slabs generates aqueous fluids that ascend into
the mantle wedge, driving the partial melting that produces arc magmas. These magmas …

Since the early 1970s, most geodynamic models proposed for the Eastern Mediterranean
consider that the initiation of extension in the Aegean, during the late Middle Miocene or …

The fate of subducted CO2 remains the subject of widespread disagreement, with different
models predicting either wholesale (up to 99%) decarbonation of the subducting slab or …

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 …

Eclogites from the deepest structural levels beneath the Semail ophiolite, Oman, record the
subduction and later exhumation of the Arabian continental margin. Published ages for this …