[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

SM Schmid, B Fügenschuh, A Kounov, L Maţenco… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a map that correlates tectonic units between Alps and western Turkey
accompanied by a text providing access to literature data, explaining the concepts used for …

Variscan orogeny in the Black Sea region

AI Okay, G Topuz - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Two Gondwana-derived Paleozoic belts rim the Archean/Paleoproterozoic nucleus
of the East European Platform in the Black Sea region. In the north is a belt of Paleozoic …

Caucasus collisional history: Review of data from East Anatolia to West Iran

Y Rolland - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the geodynamic evolution of the Caucasus mountain belt from the
Paleozoic to Present based on a review of works from Eastern Anatolia, Greater and Lesser …

Relict basin closure and crustal shortening budgets during continental collision: An example from Caucasus sediment provenance

E Cowgill, AM Forte, N Niemi, B Avdeev, A Tye… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Comparison of plate convergence with the timing and magnitude of upper crustal
shortening in collisional orogens indicates both shortening deficits (200–1700 km) and …

The amalgamation of Pangea: Paleomagnetic and geological observations revisited

L Wu, JB Murphy, C Quesada, ZX Li… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The supercontinent Pangea formed by the subduction of the Iapetus and Rheic oceans
between Gondwana, Laurentia, and Baltica during mid-to-late Paleozoic times. However …

[HTML][HTML] Quaternary sediment sources and loess transport pathways in the Black Sea-Caspian Sea region identified by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology

C Költringer, T Stevens, M Lindner, Y Baykal… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Constraining the controls on the distribution of sediment at a continental scale is a critical
step in understanding long-term landscape and climate evolution. In particular …

Detrital zircon age constraints on the evolution of Paleo‐Tethys in NE Iran: Implications for subduction and collision tectonics

Y Chu, B Wan, MB Allen, L Chen, W Lin, M Talebian… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The timings of the onset of oceanic spreading, subduction and collision are crucial in plate
reconstructions, but not always straightforward to resolve. The Paleo‐Tethys evolution …

The East Anatolia–Lesser Caucasus ophiolite: An exceptional case of large-scale obduction, synthesis of data and numerical modelling

Y Rolland, M Hässig, D Bosch, O Bruguier, R Melis… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present new, geological, metamorphic, geochemical and geochronological data on the
East Anatolian–Lesser Caucasus ophiolites. These data are used in combination with a …

Structural inversion of back-arc basins–The Neogene Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt (SW Georgia) as a far-field effect of the Arabia-Eurasia collision

T Gusmeo, W Cavazza, VM Alania, OV Enukidze… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 350 km-long Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Georgia is the
result of the structural inversion of a continental back-arc basin developed in the Paleogene …