Late Cenozoic stress evolution along the Karasu Valley, SE Turkey

Tectonophysics

Volumn 380, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 43-68

  Over, Semir ^a   Ozden, Suha ^a   Yilmaz, Huseyin ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Eastern Mediterranean domain; Quaternary; Stress tensor inversion; Transpression; Transtension

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FAULT; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

EURASIA; KARASU VALLEY; TURKEY;

EID: 1442263757     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.11.011     Document Type: Article

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