Evolution of a mid-tertiary extensional shear zone in the southern Menderes Massif, western Turkey;Evolution d'une zone de cisaillement tardi-oligocène dans le sud du massif de Menderes (Turquie de l'Ouest)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-14

  Bozkurt, Erdin ^a   Park, R Graham ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metamorphic core complex; Mid Tertiary extensional shear zone; Southern Menderes Massif; Western Turkey

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; SHEAR ZONE;

TURKEY, MENDERES MASSIF;

EID: 0030811834     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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