Stratigraphic, structural and geochemical features of the NE-SW trending Neogene volcano-sedimentary basins in western Anatolia: Implications for associations of supra-detachment and transtensional strike-slip basin formation in extensional tectonic setting

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-183

  Ersoy, Yalçin E ^a   Helvaci, Cahit ^a   Palmer, Martin R ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Menderes Massif; NE SW trending basins; Supra detachment basins; Western Anatolia

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HANGING WALL; NEOGENE; OBLIQUE FAULT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSTENSION;

ANATOLIA; EMET; GORDES BASIN; KUTAHYA [TURKEY]; MANISA; MENDERES MASSIF; TURKEY;

EID: 79953162405     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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