Overview of the Palaeozoic-Neogene evolution of Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region (Southern Turkey, Cyprus, Syria)

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-404

  Robertson, Alastair H F ^a   Parlak, Osman ^b   Ustaömer, Timur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EURASIA; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; LEADING EDGE; MAGMATISMS; MIOCENE; OCEANIC BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; SUBDUCTION TRENCH; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GONDWANA; NEOGENE; PALEOZOIC; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TETHYS; UPLIFT;

CYPRUS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY;

EID: 84871864791     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo2011-091     Document Type: Article

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