The Kula volcanic field, western Turkey: The development of a Holocene alkali basalt province and the adjacent normal-faulting graben

Geological Magazine

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-283

  Richardson Bunbury, J M ^a  

^a Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; EXTENSION; FAULT; GRABEN; HOLOCENE; RIFTING;

TURKEY, KULA PROVINCE;

EID: 0029768957     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756800009018     Document Type: Article

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