Palaeomagnetic evolution of the Çankiri Basin (central Anatolia, Turkey): Implications for oroclinal bending due to indentation

Geological Magazine

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-355

  Kaymakci, Nuretdin ^a   Duermeijer, Charon E ^b   Langereis, Cor ^b   White, Stanley H ^b   Van Dijk, Paul M ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Magnetic declination; Oroclines; Palaeomagnetism; Stress; Tectonics; Turkey

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; INDENTATION MODELS; MAGNETIC DECLINATION; OROCLINES; PALAEOMAGNETISM; TURKEY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

INDENTATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TERTIARY;

CANKIRI BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 0042816547     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680300757X     Document Type: Article

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