Record of Cenozoic sedimentation from the Amanos Mountains, Southern Turkey: Implications for the inception and evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-47

  Boulton, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Carbonate ramp; Continental collision; Dead Sea Fault; Eocene Oligocene boundary; Neogene; Neotethys

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CARBONATE RAMP; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LIMESTONE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION; TETHYS; UPLIFT; WATER DEPTH;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NUR MOUNTAINS; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 63249091313     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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