Lycian melange, southwestern Turkey: An emplaced Late Cretaceous accretionary complex

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-258

  Collins, Alan S ^a   Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIME; TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; GEOCHEMICAL AFFINITY; LATE CRETACEOUS; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OROGENIC COLLAPSE; SHALLOW WATERS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASALT; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; LIMESTONE; MELANGE; SUBDUCTION; TETHYS; THRUST FAULT;

MEDITERRANEAN COAST [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84879881685     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0255:LMSTAE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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