Geotectonic setting and origin of the youngest Kula volcanics (western Anatolia), with a new emplacement model

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-166

  Tokçaer, Murat ^a   Agostini, Samuele ^b   Savaşçin, Mehmet Yilmaz ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Geochemistry; Kula volcanics; Western Anatolia

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 25144468468     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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