Comment on `Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower to middle Miocene halfgraben basins related to an

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00833.xCOMMENTComment on ‘Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower to middleMiocene halfgraben basins related to an extensional detachmentfault (western Crete, Greece)’ by M. Seidel, E. Seidel andB. Sto¨ckhert1 2 3Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Willem-Jan Zachariasse and Anne R. Fortuin1Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht, The2Netherlands; Stratigraphy and Paleontology group, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University,n 4, 3584 CD The3 DepartmentofSedimentology,FacultyofEarthandLifeSciences,VrijeUniversiteit,DeBoelelaan1085,1081HVAmsterdam,The NetherlandsExhumation of a high-pressure, low- orogenic extension in the exhumation oftheterrestrial Topolia breccias withtemperature metamorphic unit on the history of the Cretan metamorphic marine marls and mass flow depositsislandofCreteoccurredbetweenc.24– rocks consistent with the earlier sug- (although they did not report any21 and c. 10 Ma (Jolivet et al., 1996; gestions of Rahl et al. (2005). In their fossils indicating a marine deposi-Thomson et al., 1998; van Hinsbergen recentpaper,Seidelet al.(2007)arrive tional environment).and Meulenkamp, 2006). This exhu- at a much older date of 20–15 Ma We object to these interpretationsmation process has been suggested to (corresponding to their estimate for for several reasons. The main faultshave occurred partly syn-orogenically ...