Apatite fission-track data for the Miocene Arabia-Eurasia collision

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-38

  Okay, Aral I ^a   Zattin, Massimiliano ^b   Cavazza, William ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; EARLY MIOCENE; EURASIA; EURASIAN PLATES; FAULT SYSTEM; INDIAN OCEAN; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RED SEA; THRUST ZONE;

APATITE; FISSION REACTIONS; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

APATITE; ARABIAN PLATE; COLLISION ZONE; EURASIAN PLATE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LITHOLOGY; MIOCENE; RIFTING; THRUST FAULT;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; TURKEY;

EID: 73849150430     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30234.1     Document Type: Article

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