An Oligocene ductile strike-slip shear zone: The Uludaǧ Massif, northwest Turkey - Implications for the westward translation of Anatolia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 893-911

  Okay, A I ^a   Satir, M ^b   Zattin, M ^c   Cavazza, W ^c   Topuz, G ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Amphibolite facies metamorphism; Apatite fission tracks; Ductile shear zone; Rb Sr ages; Strike slip faulting; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE FISSION-TRACK; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; EURASIA; LATE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTHWEST TURKEY; OLIGOCENE; PEAK PRESSURES; RB/SR AGES; SHEAR ZONES; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING; TURKEY;

COOLING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GARNETS; GRANITE; METALLIC GLASS; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; APATITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GNEISS; GRANITE; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

AEGEAN SEA; ANATOLIA; ESKISEHIR [TURKEY]; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 49749141492     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26229.1     Document Type: Article

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