Metamorphic and age constraints on the Alakeçi shear zone: Implications for the extensional exhumation history of the northern Kazdaǧ Massif, NW Turkey

Lithos

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 331-345

  Bonev, Nikolay ^a   Beccaletto, Laurent ^b   Robyr, Martin ^c   Monié, Patrick ^d  

^a Department of Geology and Paleontology ^*  (Bulgaria)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

39Ar 40Ar geochronology; Alake i shear zone; Kazda Massif; P T conditions; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HANGING WALL; LINEATION; LITHOLOGY; MYLONITE; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PARAGENESIS; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; IDA MOUNTAINS; TURKEY;

EID: 70350621083     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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