High-pressure metasediments in central Turkey: Constraints on the Neotethyan closure history

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Pourteau, A ^a   Candan, O ^b   Oberhnsli, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b University of Dokuz Eyll   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; TECTONICS;

ARC VOLCANISM; BLUESCHISTS; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLINE COMPLEXES; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; GREENSCHIST; LATE CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; CENOZOIC; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HIGH PRESSURE; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TETHYS;

AFYON; ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 77955586094     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002650     Document Type: Article

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