The 40Ar/39Ar age of extensional ductile deformation and granitoid intrusion in the northern Menderes core complex: Implications for the initiation of extensional tectonics in western Turkey

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 555-566

  Isik, Veysel ^a   Tekeli, Okan ^a   Seyitoglu, Gürol ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Age dating; Extension; Shear sense indicators; Simav shear zone; Syn tectonic emplacement

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; NEOGENE;

EURASIA; MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 3042689780     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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