Exhumation with a twist: Paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of the Menderes metamorphic core complex, western Turkey

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a,b   Dekkers, Mark J ^a   Bozkurt, Erdin ^c   Koopman, Marijn ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; UNROOFING;

MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

LYCIA;

EID: 77953344138     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002596     Document Type: Article

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