Cenozoic cooling histories in the Menderes Massif, western Turkey, may be caused by erosion and flat subduction, not low-angle normal faulting

Tectonophysics

Volumn 412, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-25

  Westaway, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Denudation; Extension; Low angle normal faulting; Subduction; Thermochronology; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COOLING; METAMORPHISM;

EURASIA; MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 29944439412     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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