Tectonic significance of late ordovician granitic magmatism and clastic sedimentation on the northern margin of gondwana (Tavşanlı Zone, NW Turkey)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 159-173

  Özbey, Zeynep ^a   Ustaömer, Timur ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^b   Ustaömer, P Ayda ^c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRIES; ION MICROPROBE U-PB DATING; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

TECTONICS;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GONDWANA; GRANITE; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; NIOBIUM; ORDOVICIAN; SCHIST; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER CRUST; ZIRCON;

KUTAHYA [TURKEY]; TAVSANLI; TURKEY;

EID: 84871886407     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2011-091     Document Type: Article

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