Reconciling the geological history of western Turkey with plate circuits and mantle tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 674-686

  van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a   Kaymakci, Nuretdin ^b,c   Spakman, Wim ^c   Torsvik, Trond H ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Eastern Mediterranean; Metamorphism; Orogeny; Plate circuits; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PLATE CIRCUITS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; PRISMS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFRICAN PLATE; BLOCK ROTATION; COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; DELAMINATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); MENDERES MASSIF; SAKARYA; TURKEY;

SOLEIDAE;

EID: 77956011492     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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