Age of radiolarian-chert blocks from the Senonian Ophiolitic Mélange (Ankara, Turkey)

Island Arc

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 114-122

  Bragin, Nikita Yu ^a   Tehn, U Kagan ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ankara; Radiolarian chert blocks; Senonian Ophiolitic M lange; Turkey; Upper Norian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHERT; MELANGE; MESOZOIC;

TURKEY, ANKARA;

EID: 0030477383     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1996.tb00018.x     Document Type: Article

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