Relict basin closure accommodates continental convergence with minimal crustal shortening or deceleration of plate motion as inferred from detrital zircon provenance in the Caucasus
Eric Cowgill, University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Adam M Forte, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Nathan A Niemi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Boris Avdeev, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Alexander Robert Robert Tye, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Charles Cashman Trexler, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Zurab Javakhishvili, Ilia State University, Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia, Mikheil Elashvili, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Tea Godoladze, Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
