Tectonic-sedimentary evolution of the north tethyan margin in the central pontides of northern Turkey

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 68, 1997, Pages 255-290

  Ustaömer, Timur ^a   Robertson, Alastair ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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