Structural and sedimentary evidence from the northern margin of the Tauride platform in south central Turkey used to test alternative models of Tethys during Early Mesozoic time

Tectonophysics

Volumn 473, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 149-172

  Mackintosh, Peter W ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ayi dotless r Formation; Cimmerian; Rifting; Southern Turkey; Triassic

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CENOZOIC; CIMMERIAN; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL PLATFORMS; CRITICAL AREA; EARLY JURASSIC; FAR-FIELD STRESS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE TRIASSIC; MESOZOIC; OCEAN BASINS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SOUTHERN TURKEY; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE; TECTONIC EVENTS; TRIASSIC; UPPER PALAEOZOIC;

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACKARC BASIN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CIMMERIAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; OROGENY; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION; TETHYS; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 67649324665     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.10.031     Document Type: Article

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