Testing models of Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic orogeny in Western Turkey: Support for an evolving open-Tethys model

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 501-511

  Robertson, Alastair H F ^a   Ustaömer, Timur ^b   Pickett, Elizabeth A ^c   Collins, Alan S ^d   Andrew, Theo ^a   Dixon, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Subduction; Tethys; Triassic; Western Turkey

Indexed keywords

OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 2142815777     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-080     Document Type: Article

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