The Miocene of the Hatay area, S Turkey: Transition from the Arabian passive margin to an underfilled foreland basin related to closure of the Southern Neotethys Ocean

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-124

  Boulton, Sarah J ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabian platform; Braided river sediments; E Mediterranean; Peripheral foreland basin; S Turkey; Shallow marine carbonates; Tethyan suture zone

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONVERGENCE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARL; MIOCENE; PALEOSOL; PASSIVE MARGIN; SHALLOW WATER;

EURASIA; HATAY; TURKEY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 34247502688     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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