Late Cenozoic uplift of the Amanos Mountains and incision of the Middle Ceyhan river gorge, southern Turkey; Ar-Ar dating of the Düziçi basalt

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 321-355

  Seyrek, Ali ^a   Demir, Tuncer ^a   Pringle, Malcolm ^b   Yurtmen, Sema ^c   Westaway, Rob ^d   Bridgland, David ^e   Beck, Anthony ^e   Rowbotham, George ^f  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amanos Mountains; Ar Ar; Fluvial terraces; Pleistocene; Turkey; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PLATE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FAULT ZONE; GORGE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

CEYHAN RIVER; EURASIA; NUR MOUNTAINS; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 42949165145     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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