Pervasive Palaeogene remagnetization of the central Taurides fold-and-thrust belt (southern Turkey) and implications for rotations in the Isparta Angle

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1090-1112

  Meijers, Maud J M ^a,b   Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^c   Dekkers, Mark J ^a   Altiner, Demir ^d   Kaymakci, Nuretdin ^d   Langereis, Cor G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asia; Oceanic plateaus and microcontinents; Palaeomagnetism applied to Tectonics; Remagnetization; Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; EURASIA; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; ISOTHERMAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ISPARTA ANGLE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; OCEANIC PLATEAUS AND MICROCONTINENTS; PALAEOMAGNETISM APPLIED TO TECTONICS; REMAGNETIZATION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; STUDY AREAS; TRIASSIC; TURKISHS;

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIZATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ROCKS; ROTATION; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

MINERALS;

CARBONIFEROUS; EOCENE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MINERAL PROPERTY; MODELING; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ROCK PROPERTY; TRIASSIC;

TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 79951576323     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04919.x     Document Type: Article

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