Post-miocence deformation in the south of the Galatean Volcanic province, NW of Central Anatolia (Turkey)

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 653-672

  Rojay, Bora ^a   Karaca, Aykut ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bulevar Mihaila Pupina   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Extensional tectonics; Late Miocene Plio Quaternary; Neotectonics; Palaeostress analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PLANE; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOSTRESS; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNCONFORMITY;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

GALATEA;

EID: 53249121704     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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