Processes of late Cretaceous to late Miocene episodic thrust-sheet translation in the Lycian Taurides, SW Turkey

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 759-772

  Collins, Alan S ^a,b   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EXTENSION; OROGENY; TERTIARY; THRUST;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032405550     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.155.5.0759     Document Type: Article

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