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Tectonic Loading and Overthrust Gliding of the Pindos Nappe (NW Peloponnese): Insights from Thermochronology

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The Pindos fold-and-thrust belt (PFTB) constitutes the backbone mountain range of Greece. Thermochronology allowed the quantification of the size of the orogenic bulge of Pindos on the NW Peloponnese prior to exhumation, as well as the estimation of the duration of gliding of the PFTB and the initiation of cooling (and exhumation). It follows that gliding along the basal detachment surface occurred at depths not exceeding 4 km. The inferred geometry of the PFTB prior to exhumation, perceived through the mechanical model of the Coulomb fracture theory, implies that the wedge of the thrust belt evolved in a sub-critical state during the gliding stage until ~15 Ma (Middle Miocene). Then cooling (and thus exhumation) overtook gliding. By 9 Ma (Late Miocene), exhumation had spread over the entire nappe which, since then, has been subject to erosion mainly.

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Athanassas, C.D., Vakalas, I. Tectonic Loading and Overthrust Gliding of the Pindos Nappe (NW Peloponnese): Insights from Thermochronology. Geotecton. 57, 100–114 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001685212301003X

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