Talk:Aegean Sea Plate

Crustal shortening and extension
I have added a "Dubious – discuss" tag to the following text in the Introduction section of this article: "Since its creation the crust has been shortened through various processes, including post-orogenic collapse and crustal extension." I do not have access to the source reference that has been cited to support this text but it seems counter-intuitive that post-orogenic collapse and crustal extension, which are both extensional processes, would cause crustal shortening. I think this sentence of the article should be clarified/changed. Is the shortening perhaps referring to something like "toe thrusts" in passive margins? GeoWriter (talk) 14:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)


 * My bad, that should be "the crust has been thinned through various processes," not shortened. My brain must have short-circuited while writing that. I'll also find a more publicly available source to back it up
 * CrunchyRocks (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2021 (UTC)