SOUTHERN MENDERES MASSIF - AN INCIPIENT METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX IN WESTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY

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1994-03-01

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Bozkurt, Erdin

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In the southern sector of the Menderes Massif, north of Selimiye (Milas) augen gneisses interpreted as a deformed peraluminous granite have been dynamothermally metamorphosed and are surrounded by and intrude a regionally metamorphosed Palaeozoic 'envelope'. The granitic rocks exhibit a moderately-dipping mylonitic foliation and NNE-SSW- trending mineral elongation lineation. The progressive deformation of the granitic rocks produces a structural sequence typical of an extensional shear zone marked, from bottom to top, by a very thick extensive zone of mylonites followed in turn by brecciated mylonite and cataclasite. The kinematic indicators exhibit a top-to-the south, down-dip sense of shear.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38427

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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.151.2.0213

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Department of Geological Engineering, Article

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E. Bozkurt, “SOUTHERN MENDERES MASSIF - AN INCIPIENT METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX IN WESTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY,” JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, pp. 213–216, 1994, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38427.