Dating the exhumation of a metamorphic dome: Geological evidence for pre-Eocene unroofing of the Niğde Massif (Central Anatolia, Turkey)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 559-576

  Gautier, Pierre ^a   Bozkurt, Erdin ^b   Hallot, Erwan ^a   Dirik, Kadir ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alpine Orogeny; Anatolia; Exhumation; Extension tectonics; Unconformities

Indexed keywords

DOMES; FAULTING; FISSION REACTIONS; GRANITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALPINE OROGENY; ANATOLIA; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CRYSTALLINE COMPLEXES; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; EXHUMATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; UNCONFORMITIES;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; NEOGENE; PALEOCENE; UNROOFING;

NIGDE MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 0036766081     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802006751     Document Type: Article

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