Southward migration of arc magmatism during latest Cretaceous associated with slab steepening, East Pontides, N Turkey: New paleomagnetic data from the Amasya region

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 18-29

  Çinku, Mualla Cengiz ^a   Ustaömer, Timur ^a   Hirt, Ann M ^b   Mumtaz Hisarli Z ^a   Heller, Friedrich ^b   Orbay, Naci ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amasya; East Pontide arc; Maastrichtian; Paleomagnetism; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AMASYA; EAST PONTIDE ARC; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOMAGNETISM; TURKEY;

DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOMAGNETISM; IRON ORES; LITHOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEMAGNETIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAVA; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; SANDSTONE; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TITANOMAGNETITE;

AMASYA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 77956185372     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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