Reply to comment on 'Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower to middle Miocene half-graben basins related

¨¨doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00835.xREPLYReply to comment on ‘Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower tomiddle Miocene half-graben basins related to an extensionaldetachment fault (western Crete, Greece)’1 1 2Markus Seidel, Eberhard Seidel and Bernhard Stockhert¨1 2Institut fu¨r Geologie und Mineralogie, Universita¨tzuKo¨ln, Zu¨lpicher Str. 49 b, D-50674 Ko¨ln, Germany; Institut fu¨r Geologie, Mineralogieund Geophysik, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Universitatsstr. 150, D-44801 Bochum, Germany¨ ¨In their comment, van Hinsbergen justonelimitedsourceofinformation. from more than 30 km depth, whenMoreover, the buoyant escape model the high-pressure metamorphic Phyl-et al. (2008) question the validity ofthe tectono-sedimentary model pro- proposed by Thomson et al. (1998, lite–Quartzite Unit already resided inposed by Seidel et al. (2007) for the 1999) should not be misunderstood to the upper crust. We suspect that thisTopolia type breccia deposits in wes- invoke extrusion from a subduction marked extensional deformation oftern Crete. Apart from various sedi- channel,asquotedbyvanHinsbergen the Phyllite–Quartzite Unit shouldmentological aspects that could et al. (2008), which may rather be a have had dramatic effects also in theprobably be sorted out in the field, potentialcauseofthemarkedupliftof higher levels of the upper crust andthey argue that the proposed time Crete since the Pliocene (Meier et al., consequently at the surface. We there-brackets of c. ...