Are turtleback fault surfaces common structural elements of highly extended terranes?

Cemen I., Tekeli O., SEYİTOĞLU G., IŞIK V.

EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, cilt.73, sa.1-4, ss.139-148, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 73 Sayı: 1-4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.07.001
  • Dergi Adı: EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.139-148
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: turtleback surfaces, Death Valley, western Turkey, Alasehir (Gediz) graben, detachment surfaces, DEATH-VALLEY, MENDERES-MASSIF, GRABEN, GEDIZ
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The Death Valley region of the U.S.A. contains three topographic surfaces resembling the carapace of a turtle. These three surfaces are well exposed along the Black Mountain front and are named the Badwater, Copper Canyon, and Mormon Point Turtlebacks. It is widely accepted that the turtlebacks are also detachment surfaces that separate brittlely deformed Cenozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the hanging wall from the strongly mylonitic, ductilely deformed pre-Cenozoic rocks of the footwall.