Basement types, lower eocene series, upper eocene olistostromes and the initiation of the Southern Thrace Basin, NW Turkey;Güney trakya havzasında temel tipleri, alt eosen serisi, üst eosen olistostromları ve havza oluşumu

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Okay, Aral I ^a   Özcan, Ercan ^a   Cavazza, William ^b   Okay, Nilgün ^a   Less, György ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Circum rhodope belt; Mass flows; Olistostrome; Ophiolitic m lange; Thrace basin

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; BLUESCHIST; CLAST; CONGLOMERATE; DIABASE; EOCENE; LIMESTONE; OLISTOLITH; OLISTOSTROME; OPHIOLITE; PHYLLITE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SERPENTINITE; SLATE; TRANSGRESSION;

THRACE; TURKEY;

BARTONIA;

EID: 77950561426     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/yer-0902-10     Document Type: Article

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