REPLY Reply to comment on ‘Tectono-sedimentary evolution of lower to middle Miocene half-graben basins related to an extensional detachment fault (western Crete, Greece)’

In their comment, van Hinsbergen et al. (2008) question the validity of the tectono-sedimentary model pro-posed by Seidel et al. (2007) for the Topolia type breccia deposits in wes-tern Crete. Apart from various sedi-mentological aspects that could probably be sorted out in the field, they argue that the proposed time brackets of c. 20–15 Ma for the for-mation of the Topolia breccia do not reflect the onset of extensional defor-mation in the overriding plate of the Hellenic subduction zone after colli-sion. Instead, they propose that th