Palaeozoic-Early Tertiary Tethyan evolution of melanges, rift and passive margin units in the Karaburun Peninsula (western Turkey) and Chios Island (Greece)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 173, Issue , 2000, Pages 43-82

  Robertson, Alastair H F ^a   Pickett, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANGE; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TETHYS;

GREECE; TURKEY;

EID: 0034119028     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.173.01.03     Document Type: Article

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