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 …

A prospective sector in the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt: Geology and geochronology of mineral deposits in the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey

O Yigit - Ore Geology Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The Tethyan Metallogenic Belt (TMB), extending from Europe through Anatolia to Iran, is one
of the world's major metal producing belts, and consists of many sectors. Mineral deposits of …

Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

A Festa, GA Pini, Y Dilek… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mélanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts
and occur widely around the world. Since its first introduction and use, the term has evolved …

A new classification of the Turkish terranes and sutures and its implication for the paleotectonic history of the region

P Moix, L Beccaletto, HW Kozur, C Hochard, F Rosselet… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
The Turkish part of the Tethyan realm is represented by a series of terranes juxtaposed
through Alpine convergent movements and separated by complex suture zones. Different …

Map view restoration of Aegean–West Anatolian accretion and extension since the Eocene

DJJ van Hinsbergen, SM Schmid - Tectonics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Aegean region (Greece, western Turkey) is one of the best studied continental
extensional provinces. Here, we provide the first detailed kinematic restoration of the …

From syn-to post-orogenic Tertiary extension in the north Aegean region: constraints on the kinematics in the eastern Rhodope–Thrace, Bulgaria–Greece and the Biga …

N Bonev, L Beccaletto - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
The Aegean region experienced back-are extension related to the Hellenic subduction
system at least from the latest Oligocene to the present. We document Tertiary extension …

Rapid early-middle Miocene exhumation of the Kazdağ Massif (western Anatolia)

W Cavazza, AI Okay, M Zattin - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009 - Springer
Apatite fission-track analyses indicate that the Kazdağ Massif in northwestern Anatolia was
exhumed above the apatite partial annealing zone between 20 and 10 Ma (ie early-middle …

Origin and age of the Shenshan tectonic mélange in the Jiangshan-Shaoxing-Pingxiang Fault and late Early Paleozoic juxtaposition of the Yangtze Block and the …

L Wang, K Zhang, S Lin, W He, L Yin - Bulletin, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
When and how the Yangtze Block (Yangtze) and the West Cathaysia terrane (West
Cathaysia) in South China were amalgamated are critical to a better understanding of the …

The Arkot Dağ Mélange in Araç area, central Turkey: Evidence of its origin within the geodynamic evolution of the Intra-Pontide suture zone

MC Göncüoglu, M Marroni, L Pandolfi, A Ellero… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In northern Turkey, the Intra-Pontide suture zone is represented by an east–west
trending belt of deformed and/or metamorphic units located at the boundary between the …

U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Paleogene–Neogene volcanism in the NW Anatolia: Its implications for the Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the …

EY Ersoy, C Akal, ŞC Genç, O Candan, MR Palmer… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The northern Aegean region was shaped by subduction, obduction, collision, and post-
collisional extension processes. Two areas in this region, the Rhodope-Thrace-Biga …