Revised volcanostratigraphy of the upper Miocene to lower Pliocene Ürgüp Formation, Central Anatolian volcanic province, Turkey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 464, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-112

  Viereck Goette, L ^a   Lepetit, P ^a   Gurel A ^b   Ganskow, G ^c   Copuroglu I ^b   Abratis, M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILES; VOLCANOES;

CENTRAL ANATOLIA; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; NEW CORRELATIONS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS; VOLCANOSTRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

IGNIMBRITE; LAHAR; LAVA FLOW; MIOCENE; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PLIOCENE; PUMICE; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

ANATOLIA; CAPPADOCIA; NEVSEHIR; TURKEY;

PLINIA;

EID: 78650869614     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2464(05)     Document Type: Article

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