Late Cenozoic regional uplift and localised crustal deformation within the northern Arabian Platform in southeast Turkey: Investigation of the Euphrates terrace staircase using multidisciplinary techniques

Geomorphology

Volumn 165-166, Issue , 2012, Pages 7-24

  Demir, Tuncer ^a   Seyrek, Ali ^a   Westaway, Rob ^b,c   Guillou, Hervé ^d   Scaillet, Stéphane ^d   Beck, Ant ^e   Bridgland, David R ^f  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Anatolia; Arabia; Euphrates; Miocene; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Turkey; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASALT; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GPS; MIOCENE; PLATE MOTION; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; RIVER SYSTEM; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SUBSIDENCE; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ANATOLIA; EUPHRATES RIVER; TURKEY;

EID: 84863618436     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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