Tectonic denudation of a Late Cretaceous-Tertiary collisional belt: Regionally symmetric cooling patterns and their relation to extensional faults in the Anatolide belt of western Turkey

Geological Magazine

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 421-441

  Ring, Uwe ^a   Johnson, Christopher ^b   Hetzel, Ralf ^c   Gessner, Klaus ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatolides; Exhumation; Extension; Fission track dating; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BELTS; FAULTING; FISSION REACTIONS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

ANATOLIDES; EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; FISSION-TRACK DATING; TURKEY;

PILES;

COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; TERTIARY;

MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 0141572583     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756803007878     Document Type: Article

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