The late Early Miocene Aci{dotless}payam piggy-back basin: Refining the last stages of Lycian nappe emplacement in SW Turkey

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 208, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 101-113

  Alçiçek, Mehmet Cihat ^a   ten Veen, Johan H ^b  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nappe emplacement; Piggy back basin; Syntectonic sedimentation; Tauride orogen

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BURDIGALIAN; EMPLACEMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; NAPPE; NORMAL FAULT; OPHIOLITE; PALEOCURRENT; PIGGYBACK BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 48349108428     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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