“…The latter is regarded as the contact between the Cretan high‐P nappes and the overlying, strongly thinned non‐high‐P nappes (Figure 2), and being active at or soon after the high‐P overprint (Fassoulas et al., 1994; Jolivet et al., 1996; Kilias et al., 1994; Thomson, Stöckhert, & Brix, 1998; Thomson et al., 1999). The Cretan Detachment is either regarded a monovergent top‐to‐the‐N extensional structure (Jolivet et al., 1996), a bivergent extensional fault system (Fassoulas, 1999; Fassoulas et al., 1994; Rahl et al., 2004), a passive normal fault that delimits the upper boundary of an extrusion wedge (Chatzaras et al., 2013; Grasemann et al., 2019; Ring & Yngwe, 2018; Xypolias et al., 2007), or even a Miocene thrust that postdates the exhumation of the high‐P nappes (Klein et al., 2013) (Figure 3). Ring and Yngwe (2018) further proposed a period of out‐of‐sequence thrusting at ∼17–11 Ma following normal faulting at the Cretan Detachment, implying that the Cretan Detachment is a composite structure.…”