The igneous rocks of Greece : the anatomy of an orogen / by Georgia Pe-Piper [and] David J.W. Piper
- Author
- Pe-Piper, Georgia
- Published
- Berlin : Gebr. Borntraeger, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xv, 573 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Piper, D. J. W.
- Series
- Contents
- LATE PALEOZOIC PLUTONISM AND VOLCANISM: Introduction: the Hercynian basement of Greece -- Plutons in the Pelagonian zone of Thessaly and western Macedonia: type example -- Probable Hercynian plutonism in northeastern Greece -- Hercynian basement rocks in southern Greece -- Geology of volcanic rocks of Karakaya suture zone -- Petrography and geochemistry -- Synthesis of the regional setting of Carboniferous plutons -- TRIASSIC RIFTING AND VOLCANISM: General geologic history of the early Mesozoic of Greece -- Othris and north Evia: a type example -- Geology of Triassic volcanic rocks of Apulia on the margin of the Pindos ocean -- ?Triassic meta-igneous rocks of the Cyclades, south Evia and Thessaly -- Geology of Triassic volcanic rocks of Pelagonia -- Geology of Triassic volcanic rocks of the Vardar and Serbo-Macedonian zones -- Petrography and geochemistry -- Regional synthesis -- JURASSIC PINDOS OCEAN BASIN: OPHIOLITES AND MELANGES: Introduction: the western ophiolite belt of Greece -- Type example: the Vourinos and Pindos ophiolites -- The western Jurassic ophiolite sequences and related rocks of the Pelagonian zone -- Meta-ophiolites in the Intermediate Unit of the Attico-Cycladic complex and possible correlatives in Thessaly -- Petrography and geochemistry of the western ophiolite belt -- Synthesis: distribution and origin of Jurassic oceanic igneous rocks -- MESOZOIC OCEAN CRUST OF NORTHEAST GREECE: Tectonic and stratigraphic setting of northeast Greece -- Mesozoic igneous rocks of the Vardar zone -- Mesozoic igneous rocks of the Rhodope and Serbo-Macedonian zones -- Petrography and geochemistry of Mesozoic igneous rocks of northeastern Greece -- Regional synthesis -- and CRETACEOUS OPHIOLITES AND SUBDUCTION IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH GREECE: Late Cretaceous ophiolitic rocks -- Cretaceous subduction/accretion complexes -- Regional synthesis -- EARLY TERTIARY PLUTONISM AND VOLCANISM OF MACEDONIA AND THRACE: Cenozoic evolution of the Aegean region -- Pre-Oligocene plutons of the Serbo-Macedonian and Rhodope zones -- Oligocene plutonism -- Oligocene volcanic rocks of the Rhodope zone and Thrace -- Early Miocene extension-related plutonism -- Petrography and geochemistry -- Regional synthesis -- EARLY MIOCENE VOLCANISM OF THE NORTHEAST AEGEAN: Lesbos: a type example -- The geology of other volcanic centres -- Petrography and geochemistry of the other volcanic centres -- Regional synthesis -- MIOCENE PLUTONISM IN THE CYCLADES: The general setting of Miocene igneous activity in the Cyclades -- The central Cyclades granites -- The western Cyclades granodiorites -- The eastern Cyclades monzonites -- Regional variation in the plutonic rocks of the Cyclades -- Mid-Cenozoic minor volcanism in the South Aegean -- Synthesis: petrogenesis and tectonic setting -- MIOCENE-QUATERNARY VOLCANIC ROCKS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN GREECE: Introduction: the Aegean Sea as a back-arc basin -- Geology of individual volcanic centres -- Petrography and geochemistry -- Synthesis: petrogenesis and tectonic setting -- THE SOUTH AEGEAN ARC: The geologic setting of the major volcanic centres -- Petrography and geochemistry -- Synthesis: Petrogenesis and tectonic setting -- SYNTHESIS: General themes in the geological evolution of Greece -- Geochemical and isotopic evolution of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle -- Economic and societal aspects of igneous activity.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 3443110304
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [448]-510) and index.
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