Mid-Cretaceous olistostromal ophiolitic mélange developed in the back-arc basin of the eastern Pontide magmatic arc, northeast Turkey

International Geology Review

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1103-1126

  Eyuboglu, Yener ^a   Bektas, Osman ^a   Pul, Dilek ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bayindirlik ve iskan Bakanligi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRETACEOUS; LITHOLOGY; MELANGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OLISTOSTROME; OPHIOLITE; PETROGENESIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EURASIA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 38149070105     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.12.1103     Document Type: Article

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