Pre-Alpide Palaeozoic and Mesozoic orogenic events in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 389-405

  Okay, A I ^a   Satir, M ^b   Siebel, W ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EPISODIC EVENT; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLUTONISM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

ANATOLIA; BLACK SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 33846117010     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.23     Document Type: Review

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