Tertiary extension in the Aegean region has led to extensional detachment faulting, along
which metamorphic core complexes were exhumed, among which is the Early to Middle …

Following an Early Miocene phase of N–S extension affecting the entire Hellenides, 50
clockwise rotation affected western Greece. Modern GPS analyses show rapid southwestward …

The island of Rhodos represents an uplifted block in the largely submerged southeastern
Aegean forearc. It has a complex history of subsidence, uplift and counterclockwise rotation …

The first and foremost boundary condition for kinematic reconstructions of the Mediterranean
region is the relative motion between Africa and Eurasia, constrained through …

The extrusion and clockwise rotation of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau around the Eastern
Himalaya Syntaxis has been playing an important role in accommodating the Tibetan …

Accretionary orogens often contain upper crustal nappes derived from subducted continental
lithosphere that display (ultra-)high-pressure, low-temperature ((U)HP-LT) metamorphism. …

Deformation in orogenic belts is typically widely distributed but may be localized 21 to form
discrete, fast-moving fault zones enclosing semi-rigid microplates. An example 22 is the …

We welcome the discussion by Elena Druguet, Jordi Carreras and Jochen Mezger (Druguet
et al. 2017) of our paper (Vissers et al. 2017b) in which we report Jurassic 40Ar/39Ar ages …

Paleomagnetism provides a quantitative tool for estimating paleogeographic displacements
of rock units relative to the Earth’s spin axis and is widely used to determine relative tectonic …

Vissers et al.(2017) performed muscovite 40Ar/39Ar geochronology on shear zones from
the Northern Cap de Creus shear belt (Variscan basement of the eastern Pyrenees). They …