Implications of Jurassic chert identified in the Tokat Complex, northern Turkey

Geological Magazine

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-97

  Bozkurt, Erdin ^a   Holdsworth, Brian K ^b   Koçyiǧit, Ali ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERT; DEFORMATION; JURASSIC; METAMORPHIC ROCK; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST SHEET; TITHONIAN;

TURKEY, ANATOLIA, TOKAT;

EID: 0030860632     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756897006419     Document Type: Article

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