Neotethyan intraoceanic microplate rotation and variations in spreading axis orientation: Palaeomagnetic evidence from the Hatay ophiolite (southern Turkey)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 105-117

  Inwood, Jennifer ^a   Morris, Antony ^a   Anderson, Mark W ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neotethys; ophiolite; palaeomagnetism; rotation; tectonic; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AXIS ORIENTATIONS; COLLISIONAL OROGENESIS; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; INITIAL ORIENTATIONS; INPUT VECTORS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MICROPLATE; MICROPLATE ROTATIONS; NEOTETHYS; OCEAN BASINS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERES; OPHIOLITE; PALAEOMAGNETISM; SUBDUCTION TRENCHES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC PROCESS; TECTONIC ROTATIONS; TURKEY; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

GEOMAGNETISM; LITHOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRIPPING (DYES); TECTONICS; TOOLS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ROTATION;

CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; MAASTRICHTIAN; MICROPLATE; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC ROTATION; THRUST;

EURASIA; HATAY; TURKEY;

EID: 62549148570     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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