Ductile-brittle transition along the Alaşehir detachment fault and its structural relationship with the Simav detachment fault, Menderes massif, western Turkey

Tectonophysics

Volumn 374, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Isik, Veysel ^a   Seyitoǧlu, Gürol ^a   Çemen, Ibrahim ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detachment faults; Extension tectonics; Metamorphic core complexes; Shear zones; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CENOZOIC; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE;

MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 0141920432     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00275-0     Document Type: Article

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