Sedimentological, paleontological and volcanic records of the earliest volcanic activity in the Eastern Pontide Cretaceous volcanic arc (NE Turkey)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 377-384

  Yilmaz, Cemil ^a   Şen, Cüneyt ^a   Özgür, A Sibel ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Pelagic limestone; Pontide volcanic arc; Turkey; Volcanic rocks

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; ISLAND ARC; PETROGENESIS; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

EURASIA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 1342332008     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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