Coeval extension and compression in Late Mesozoic-Recent thin-skinned extensional tectonics in central Anatolia, Turkey

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 623-640

  Genç, Yurdal ^a   Yürür, Mehmet Tekin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Basin and range tectonics; Cappadocia; Central Anatolia; Crustal stretching; Post collisional collapse; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BASIN AND RANGE; BASIN AND RANGE TECTONICS; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; CORE COMPLEX; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL STRETCHING; CURIE POINT DEPTHS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; GRAVITATIONAL MOVEMENT; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOW DENSITY; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE MIOCENE; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY PHENOMENA; REGIONALLY THINNED; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHALLOW MARINE; STRUCTURAL DATA; TRANSCURRENT FAULTS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MESOZOIC; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TETHYS; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS;

ANATOLIA; CAPPADOCIA; TURKEY;

EID: 77953540633     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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