Late Palaeozoic-Early Cenozoic tectonic development of the Eastern Pontides (Artvin area), Turkey: Stages of closure of Tethys along the southern margin of Eurasia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 340, Issue , 2010, Pages 281-327

  Ustaömer, Timur ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Grant Institute of Earth Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOREARC BASIN; GNEISS; GRANITE; OPHIOLITE; PALEOZOIC; SCHIST; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS;

EURASIA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 80053378297     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP340.13     Document Type: Article

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