Formation of the Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic Karakaya Complex and related ophiolites in NW Turkey by Palaeotethyan subduction-accretion

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 995-1009

  Pickett, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion; Ophiolites; Subduction; Tethys; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GONDWANA; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TETHYS;

TURKEY, KARAKAYA COMPLEX;

EID: 0030429486     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.6.0995     Document Type: Article

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