Three-directional extensional deformation and formation of the Liassic rift basins in the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 337-346

  Eyüboǧlu, Yener ^a   Bektaş, Osman ^a   Şeren, Aysel ^a   Maden, Nafiz ^a   Özer, Rahşan ^a   Jacoby, Wolfgang R ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eastern Pontides; Extension; Gravimetry; Liassic rift basins; Magnetics; Sedimentary dikes

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIKE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; JURASSIC; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

EURASIA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 33751353939     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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