Kinematics of active left-lateral faulting in SE Turkey from offset Pleistocene river gorges: Improved constraint on the rate and history of relative motion between the Turkish and Arabian plates

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 149-164

  Westaway, Rob ^a   Demir, Tuncer ^b   Seyrek, Ali ^b   Beck, Anthony ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; FLUVIAL MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURE; GORGE; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 29244483966     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764905-030     Document Type: Article

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