Early Paleozoic Evolution of the NW Gondwanaland: Data from Southern Turkey and Surrounding Regions

Gondwana Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-324

  Goncuoglu, M Cemal ^a   Kozlu, Huseyin ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TPAO   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lower Paleozoic; NW Gondwana; Paleogeography; Stratigraphy; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; BLACK SHALE; DEPOSITION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GLACIOEUSTACY; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; TRANSTENSION; UNCONFORMITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 0001423963     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70290-2     Document Type: Article

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