A key extensional metamorphic complex reviewed and restored: the Menderes Massif of western Turkey

DJJ van Hinsbergen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review of the structure and metamorphism of the Menderes Massif in
western Turkey, and subsequently a map-view restoration of its Neogene unroofing history …

Segmented African lithosphere beneath the Anatolian region inferred from teleseismic P-wave tomography

C Berk Biryol, SL Beck, G Zandt… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lithospheric deformation throughout Anatolia, a part of the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt,
is controlled mainly by collision-related tectonic escape of the Anatolian Plate and …

Sedimentary facies, depositional environments and palaeogeographic evolution of the Neogene Denizli Basin, SW Anatolia, Turkey

H Alçiçek, B Varol, M Özkul - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
The Denizli Basin (southwestern Anatolia, Turkey) contains a record of environmental
changes dating since the Early Miocene. Detailed facies analysis of the Neogene formations …

From palaeotectonics to neotectonics in the Neotethys realm: the importance of kinematic decoupling and inherited structural grain in SW Anatolia (Turkey)

JH Ten Veen, SJ Boulton, MC Alçiçek - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
In order to asses young, ie “neotectonic” fault kinematics and the relation with plate-tectonic
processes in SW Turkey we focused on the questions: 1) what produced the structural grain …

Exhumation with a twist: Paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of the Menderes metamorphic core complex, western Turkey

DJJ van Hinsbergen, MJ Dekkers, E Bozkurt… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Much remains to be understood about the links between regional vertical axis rotations,
continental extension, and shortening. In western Turkey, Miocene vertical axis rotations …

Stratigraphic correlation of the Neogene basins in southwestern Anatolia: regional palaeogeographical, palaeoclimatic and tectonic implications

H Alçiçek - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010 - Elsevier
The extensional intramontane grabens that formed in southwestern Anatolia in the Late
Cenozoic bear the unique tectono-sedimentary, palaeontological and palynological record …

A NS-trending active extensional structure, the Şuhut (Afyon) graben: commencement age of the extensional neotectonic period in the Isparta Angle, SW Turkey

A Koçyiğit, Ş DEVECİ - Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 2007 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
The Şuhut graben is an 8-11-km-wide, 24-km-long, NS-trending, active extensional structure
located on the southern shoulder of the Akşehir-Afyon graben, near the apex of the outer …

Paleomagnetic evidence for upper plate response to a STEP fault, SW Anatolia

N Kaymakcı, C Langereis, M Özkaptan… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Pliny-Strabo Trench is a Subduction Transform-Edge Propagator (STEP) Fault
developed on the northern edge of the subducted African Oceanic Lithosphere. It connects …

Tectonic evolution of the Söke Basin: Extension-dominated transtensional basin formation in western part of the Büyük Menderes Graben, Western Anatolia, Turkey

Ö Sümer, U İnci, H Sözbilir - Journal of Geodynamics, 2013 - Elsevier
Integrated study on the stratigraphic and structural features of the Söke Basin on the western
end of the Büyük Menderes Graben, Western Anatolia, has indicated that the tectonic …

Tectonic development of an orogen-top rift recorded by its terrestrial sedimentation pattern: the Neogene Eşen Basin of southwestern Anatolia, Turkey

MC Alçiçek - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
The Eşen Basin of southwestern Anatolia formed as a NE-trending intramontane extensional
graben, ca. 15 km wide and 30 km long, in the Early Tortonian, after the southeasterly …