Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus
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a Institut für Erdund Umweltwissenschaften, and DFG Leibniz Center for Surface Processes and Climate Studies, Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany b Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey c Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy d Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingeneria (IGAG-CNR), Rome, Italy
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