How to resist subduction: Evidence for large-scale out-of-sequence thrusting during Eocene collision in Western Turkey

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 769-784

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

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aegean sea; Alpine orogeny; Exhumation; Metamorphism; Thrust faults; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ALPINE OROGENY; COLLISION; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHISM; THRUST FAULT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 0034773082     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.158.5.769     Document Type: Article

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