Rapid early-middle Miocene exhumation of the Kazdaǧ Massif (western Anatolia)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1935-1947

  Cavazza, William ^a   Okay, A I ^b   Zattin, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Detachment fault; Fission track analysis; North Anatolian fault system; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AEGEAN SEA; EURASIA; IDA MOUNTAINS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 70350619373     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0353-9     Document Type: Article

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