The Menderes Massif of western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the Aegean-do they really correlate?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-6

  Ring, U ^a   Gessner, K ^a   Gungor T ^b   Passchier, C W ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cycladic Massif; Eastern Mediterranean; Menderes Massif; Palaeogeography; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONICS;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032949173     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.1.0003     Document Type: Article

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