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Birth and closure of the Kallipetra Basin: Late Cretaceous reworking of the Jurassic Pelagonian–Axios/Vardar contact (northern Greece)
Lydia R. Bailey
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Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
USA
Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich, 8092
Zurich, Switzerland
Filippo L. Schenker
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
of Southern Switzerland, 6952 Canobbio, Switzerland
Maria Giuditta Fellin
Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich, 8092
Zurich, Switzerland
Miriam Cobianchi
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia,
Pavia, 27100, Italy
Thierry Adatte
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland
Vincenzo Picotti
Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich, 8092
Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
The Kallipetra Basin, formed in the Late Cretaceous on the reworked Pelagonian–Axios–Vardar contact in the Hellenides, is described for the first time. We document how and when the basin evolved in response to tectonic forcings and basin inversion. Cenomanian extension and basin widening was followed by Turonian compression and basin inversion. Thrusting occurred earlier than previously reported in the literature, with a vergence to the NE, at odds with the regional SW vergence of the margin.
The Kallipetra Basin, formed in the Late Cretaceous on the reworked Pelagonian–Axios–Vardar...
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