Postcollisional extensional tectonics and exhumation of the Menderes massif in the Western Anatolia extended terrane, Turkey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 353-379

  Çemen, Ibrahim ^a   Catlos, Elizabeth J ^a   Gögüs, Oǧuz ^b   Özerdem, Cenk ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Menderes massif; Metamorphic core complexes; Turkey

Indexed keywords

FAULTING;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MENDERES MASSIF; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; SHEAR SENSE INDICATORS; TURKEY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR ZONE; TERRANE; UNROOFING;

ANATOLIA; MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 73949088360     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(18)     Document Type: Article

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