Neotectonic deformation in the transition zone between the Dead Sea Transform and the East Anatolian Fault Zone, Southern Turkey: A palaeomagnetic study of the Karasu Rift Volcanism

Tectonophysics

Volumn 385, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 17-43

  Tatar, O ^a   Piper, J D A ^b   Gursoy H ^a   Heimann, A ^c   Kocbulut F ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amanos; Brunhes Chron; Dead Sea Fault Zone; Karasu; Neotectonics; Palaeomagnetism; Southern Turkey; Strike slip; Tectonic rotation

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; TRANSITION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

EID: 3242774470     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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