The Cilicia-Adana basin complex, Eastern Mediterranean: Neogene evolution of an active fore-arc basin in an obliquely convergent margin

Marine Geology

Volumn 221, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 121-159

  Aksu, A E ^a   Calon, T J ^a   Hall, J ^a   Mansfield, S ^a   Yasar D ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adana Basin; Basin evolution; Cilicia Basin; Eastern Mediterranean; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ADANA BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CILICIA BASIN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

CATCHMENTS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FOREARC BASIN; NEOGENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CILICIAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 26044470712     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.011     Document Type: Article

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