Late Cenozoic stress distribution along the Misis Range in the Anatolian, Arabian, and African plate intersection region, SE Turkey

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Over, Semir ^a   Ozden, Suha ^a   Can Unlugenc, Ulvi ^b  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Fault slip; Inversion; Quaternary; Stress distribution; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 6044266051     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001455     Document Type: Article

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