Tectonic implications of fluvial incision and pediment deformation at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1107-1120

  Yildirim, Cengiz ^a,b,c   Schildgen, Taylor F ^b   Echtler, Helmut ^a   Melnick, Daniel ^b   Bookhagen, Bodo ^c   Çiner, Attila ^d   Niedermann, Samuel ^a   Merchel, Silke ^e   Martschini, Martin ^f   Steier, Peter ^f,g   Strecker, Manfred R ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fluvial Incision; Surface Exposure Age; Tectonic Geomorphology; Uplift Rate

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; FLUVIAL INCISION; SURFACE DEFORMATION; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; UPLIFT RATE;

FAULTING; STREAM FLOW;

DEFORMATION;

AGE DETERMINATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; PEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT; UPLIFT;

ANATOLIA; BLACK SEA COAST [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84884248962     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20066     Document Type: Article

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