A synthesis: Late Cenozoic stress field distribution at northeastern corner of the Eastern Mediterranean, SE Turkey

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-103

  Over, Semir ^a   Ozden, Suha ^a   Unlugenc, Ulvi Can ^b   Yilmaz, Huseyin ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean domain; Inversion; Quaternary stress distribution; SE Turkey; Transpression transtension tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODYNAMICS; IN SITU STRESS; KINEMATICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRESS FIELD;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 0842349456     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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