Anatolian escape tectonics driven by Eocene crustal thickening and Neogene-Quaternary extensional collapse in the eastern Mediterranean region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 441-462

  Dhont, Damien ^a   Chorowicz, Jean ^b   Luxey, Pascal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Dynamic Graphics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Collision; Escape tectonics; Extension; Radar imagery; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRACKING RADAR;

ANATOLIA; COLLISION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXTENSION; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; RADAR IMAGERY; STRIKE-SLIP TECTONICS;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; COLLAPSE; COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EOCENE; LITHOSPHERE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

ANATOLIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SIVAS BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 39749110996     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(21)     Document Type: Article

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