Petrology and geochemistry of post-collisional Middle Eocene volcanic units in North-Central Turkey: Evidence for magma generation by slab breakoff following the closure of the Northern Neotethys Ocean

Lithos

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 267-305

  Keskin, Mehmet ^a   Genç, Ş Can ^b   Tüysüz, Okan ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Magma plumbing; Middle Eocene; North central Anatolia; Petrologic modeling; Slab breakoff

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EOCENE; PALEOCENE; PETROLOGY; SLAB; SUTURE ZONE; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 49449102628     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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