Ar40-Ar39 dating of biotite and sanidine in tuffaceous sediments and related intrusive rocks: Implications for the early miocene evolution of the gördes and selendi basins, W Turkey

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 239-253

  Purvis, Martin ^a   Robertson, Alastair ^a   Pringle, Malcolm ^b  

^a Grant Institute of Earth Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar Ar dating; Gediz Graben; G rdes Basin; Neogene basins; Selendi Basin; W Turkey

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; GORDES BASIN; MANISA; SELENDI BASIN; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 27644480955     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ga.18.239-253     Document Type: Article

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