Successive structural events in the Hatay ophiolite of southeast Turkey: Distinguishing oceanic, emplacement and post-emplacement phases of faulting

Tectonophysics

Volumn 473, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 208-222

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ophiolite; Palaeostress; Reactivation; Structural; Tectonic; Turkey

Indexed keywords

OPHIOLITE; PALAEOSTRESS; REACTIVATION; STRUCTURAL; TURKEY;

TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; FAULTING; OPHIOLITE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOSTRESS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; HATAY; TURKEY;

EID: 67649394257     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.10.037     Document Type: Article

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