Oceanic crust generation in an island arc tectonic setting, SE Anatolian orogenic belt (Turkey)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 583-603

  Parlak, Osman ^a   Höck, Volker ^b   Kozlu, Hüseyin ^c   Delaloye, Michel ^d  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; G ksun ophiolite; Neotethys; Subduction zones; Turkey

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; TECTONICS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; IN COMPOSITIONS; NEOTETHYS; SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TURKEY;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; ISLAND ARC; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENIC BELT;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 6344228500     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756804009458     Document Type: Article

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