Orientations of palaeotectonic features as a key to understanding the neotectonic block rotation of the Kocaeli Peninsula, NW Turkey

International Geology Review

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-344

  Gurbuz, Alper ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Block rotation; Istanbul zone; Neotectonic; North Anatolian fault zone; Palaeotectonic; Strike slip tectonics

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; COLLISION ZONE; EOCENE; FAULT ZONE; NEOTECTONICS; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS;

KOCAELI [TURKEY]; MARMARA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 70350213005     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206810802655963     Document Type: Article

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