The magnetism in tectonically controlled travertine as a palaeoseismological tool: Examples from the Sicak Çermik geothermal field, central Turkey

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 291, Issue , 2007, Pages 291-305

  Gursoy H ^a   Mesci, B L ^a   Piper, J D A ^b   Tatar, O ^a   Davies, C J ^b  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EMPLACEMENT; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOTHERMAL POWER; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; TRAVERTINE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 38549130193     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP291.13     Document Type: Article

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