Soft-sediment deformation structures in the late Miocene Şelmo Formation around Adiyaman area, Southeastern Turkey

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 235, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 277-291

  Koç Taşgin, Calibe ^a   Orhan, Hükmü ^b   Türkmen, Ibrahim ^a   Aksoy, Ercan ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ad yaman; Lacustrine and deltaic sediments; elmo Formation; Soft sediment deformation structures; Southeastern Anatolian Thrust Belt

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS; BRAIDED RIVER; COMPRESSIONAL; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; DELTAIC DEPOSITS; EARLY MIOCENE; EURASIAN PLATES; FAULT ZONE; FLAME STRUCTURE; LACUSTRINE AND DELTAIC SEDIMENTS; LATE MIOCENE; LATE PLIOCENE; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SILTSTONES; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION; SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION STRUCTURES; SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIAN THRUST BELT; SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY; SYNSEDIMENTARY; TECTONIC SETTINGS; THRUST BELTS; TRIGGER SYSTEMS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ARABIAN PLATE; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; OUTCROP; PLATE MOTION; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

ADIYAMAN [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 79952451358     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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