Seismic structure, crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the Anatolian-African Plate Boundary and the Cenozoic Orogenic Belts in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 327, Issue , 2009, Pages 127-160

  Dilek, Yildirim ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GONDWANA; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; UPWELLING;

EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 75249105189     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP327.8     Document Type: Article

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