Timing of uplift of the Troodos Massif (Cyprus) constrained by sedimentary and magnetic polarity evidence

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 457-470

  Kinnaird, Tim C ^a,b   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a   Morris, Antony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; FLUVIAL FACIES; HIGH RATE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE PLIOCENE; MESAORIA BASIN; PLEISTOCENE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TROODOS MASSIF;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FACIES; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; UPLIFT;

CYPRUS; LIMASSOL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESAORIA BASIN; PISSOURI BASIN; TROODOS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79952255306     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-150     Document Type: Article

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