Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia

Paleomagnetism and the tectonic evolution of the Ionian zone, northwestern Greece
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Published:January 01, 2006
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Lena Broadley, E. Platzman, J. Platt, M. Papanikolaou, S. Matthews, 2006. "Paleomagnetism and the tectonic evolution of the Ionian zone, northwestern Greece", Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia, Yildirim Dilek, Spyros Pavlides
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The Ionian zone is a classic thin-skinned linear fold and thrust belt forming a part of the external Hellenides, in westernmost Greece. The region has been a focus of intensive paleomagnetic investigation since the early 1980s, and it is now generally believed to have undergone a multiphase clockwise vertical-axis rotation of 40°–60° since the Miocene, although the timings are disputed, and spatial variations within this trend have been largely ignored thus far. We present data from thirty new paleomagnetic sites and a reappraisal of previous results from the Ionian zone in an attempt to construct a unified model for the...
- Cenozoic
- Cephalonia
- characteristic remanent magnetization
- clastic rocks
- demagnetization
- Europe
- experimental studies
- fold and thrust belts
- Greece
- Greek Ionian Islands
- Hellenides
- Ionian Islands
- Ionian Zone
- magnetization
- marl
- Mediterranean region
- paleomagnetism
- Paleozoic
- Permian
- plate tectonics
- remanent magnetization
- rotation
- sedimentary rocks
- Southern Europe
- tectonics
- thick-skinned tectonics
- thin-skinned tectonics
- thrust sheets
- northwestern Greece