Genesis of tepees in the quaternary hardpan calcretes, Mersin, S Turkey

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-134

  Eren, Muhsin ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Expansion; Hardpan calcrete; Pseudo anticline; Quaternary; Tepee structure; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CALCRETE; DOME; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PETROGENESIS; PETROGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEMIARID REGION; STABLE ISOTOPE; VADOSE ZONE;

EURASIA; MERSIN BAY; TURKEY;

EID: 37549052440     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03176242     Document Type: Article

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