Morpho-tectonic evolution of the Çanakkale Basin (NW Anatolia): Evidence for a recent tectonic inversion from transpression to transtension

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-239

  Gökaşan, Erkan ^a   Görüm, Tolga ^a,c   Tur, Hüseyin ^b   Batuk, Fatmagül ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOZCAADA ISLAND; INITIAL MORPHOLOGY; LATE MIOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MARMARA SEA; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC DATAS; SHEAR ZONE; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

MORPHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULTING;

BASIN EVOLUTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERMONTANE BASIN; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION; UPLAND REGION;

BALIKESIR [TURKEY]; BIGA PENINSULA; BOZCAADA; CANAKKALE [TURKEY]; CANAKKALE BASIN; IZMIR [TURKEY]; KARABURUN PENINSULA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 84860994609     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0262-y     Document Type: Article

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