Geology of the eastern pontides

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 68, 1997, Pages 291-311

  Okay, Aral I ^a   Cahinturk, Orner ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

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