A N-S-trending active extensional structure, the Suhut (Afyon) graben: Commencement age of the extensional neotectonic period in the Isparta Angle, SW Turkey

2007-01-01
Kocyigit, Ali
Deveci, Sule
The Suhut graben is an 8 - 11- km- wide, 24- km- long, N - S- trending, active extensional structure located on the southern shoulder of the Aksehir- Afyon graben, near the apex of the outer Isparta Angle. The Suhut graben developed on a pre- Upper Pliocene rock assemblage comprising pre- Jurassic metamorphic rocks, Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous platform carbonates, the Lower Miocene - Middle Pliocene Afyon stratovolcanic complex and a fluvio-lacustrine volcano- sedimentary sequence.

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Citation Formats
A. Kocyigit and S. Deveci, A N-S-trending active extensional structure, the Suhut (Afyon) graben: Commencement age of the extensional neotectonic period in the Isparta Angle, SW Turkey. 2007, p. 416.