Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the NE-SW-trending superimposed Selendi basin: Implications for late Cenozoic crustal extension in Western Anatolia, Turkey

Tectonophysics

Volumn 488, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 210-232

  Ersoy, Yalçin E ^a   Helvaci, Cahit ^a   Sözbilir, Hasan ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Superimposed basin; Supra detachment basin; Western Anatolia

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; ALLUVIAL SEDIMENTATION; BASALTIC VOLCANISM; BASIN FORMATION; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL UNITS; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; EARLY MIOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE MIOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORMAL FAULTS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SUPERIMPOSED BASIN; TECTONIC FEATURES; WESTERN ANATOLIA;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

TECTONICS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HANGING WALL; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

ANATOLIA; MANISA; MENDERES MASSIF; SELENDI BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 77953811834     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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