Tectonic development of an orogen-top rift recorded by its terrestrial sedimentation pattern: The Neogene Eşen Basin of southwestern Anatolia, Turkey

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 117-140

  Alçiçek, Mehmet Cihat ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alluvium; Deltas; Graben; Lakes; Lycian Taurides; Neotectonics; Orogen collapse

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EPHEMERAL LAKE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; NEOTECTONICS; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTATION;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 34250704320     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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