Abstract:Abstract. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology on garnet-mica schists and the underlying Gondwanan granitoid basement terrane on Ios demonstrates evidence of a Late Cretaceous high pressure, medium temperature (HP–MP) metamorphic event. This suggests that the Asteroussia crystalline nappe on Crete may extend northward and include Ios, in the Cyclades. If this is correct, the northern part of the Asteroussia nappe (on Ios) is overlain by the terrane stack defined by the individual slices of the Cycladic Eclogite-Blueschist … Show more
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