Geometry of the Turkey-Arabia and Africa-Arabia plate boundaries in the latest Miocene to Mid-Pliocene: The role of the Malatya-Ovacik fault zone in Eastern Turkey

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-35

  Westaway, R ^a,c   Demir, T ^b   Seyrek, A ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; ARABIAN PLATE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLIOCENE; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; TETHYS; TRANSPRESSION;

EURASIA; KAHRAMANMARAS; MALATYA-OVACIK FAULT ZONE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 69249241668     PISSN: 1815381X     EISSN: 18153828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/ee-3-27-2008     Document Type: Article

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