River terrace sequences in Turkey: Sources of evidence for lateral variations in regional uplift

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 289-311

  Demir, Tuncer ^a   Yeşilnacar, Irfan ^a   Westaway, Rob ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incision; Pleistocene; River terraces; Syria; Turkey; Uplift

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENING; EROSION RATE; INCISED VALLEY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RIVER TERRACE; UPLIFT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 10944258740     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(04)80010-5     Document Type: Article

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