Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 133-145

  Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b   Schildgen, Taylor F ^c   Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Faranda, Costanza ^a   Gliozzi, Elsa ^a,b   Hudáčková, Natália ^d   Lucifora, Stella ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; EASTERN ANATOLIAN PLATEAU; FIRST-ORDER; LATE MIOCENE; LOCALIZED DEFORMATIONS; LOW DENSITY; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MIOCENE; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; REVERSE POLARITY; SLAB BREAK-OFF; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPLIFT RATE; UPPER MANTLE;

DEFORMATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; TOPOGRAPHY;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASEMENT ROCK; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; UPLIFT; WAVE VELOCITY;

ANATOLIA; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84858811403     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30466.1     Document Type: Article

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