Multiple tectonic rotations and transform tectonism in an intraoceanic suture zone, SW Cyprus

Tectonophysics

Volumn 299, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 229-253

  Morris, Antony ^a   Anderson, Mark W ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Cyprus; Ophiolite; Palaeomagnetism; Rotation; Tectonics; Transform

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; CRETACEOUS; OPHIOLITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULT;

CYPRUS;

EID: 0032553809     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00207-8     Document Type: Article

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