Tectonic evolution of the southern margin of Laurasia in the Black Sea region

AI Okay, AM Nikishin - International Geology Review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Black Sea region comprises Gondwana-derived continental blocks and oceanic
subduction complexes accreted to Laurasia. The core of Laurasia is made up of an …

Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the active margin of Eurasia: Southern Central Pontides, Turkey

AI Okay, G Sunal, S Sherlock, D Alt ner… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pontides in northern Turkey constituted part of the southern active margin of
Eurasia during the Mesozoic. In the Early Cretaceous, a large submarine turbidite fan …

Calibrating the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous shallow and deep marine bioevents by quantitative biostratigraphy: A synthesis from the Pontides Carbonate Platform …

SG Atasoy, D Altiner, S Özkan-Altiner - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous is an interval of unstandardized stages and
includes the only Mesozoic system boundary without a Global Boundary Stratotype Section …

A review of the geology and geodynamic evolution of tectonic terranes in Turkey

MC Göncüoğlu - Mineral resources of Turkey, 2019 - Springer
The geodynamic evolution of Turkey is mainly controlled by drift and collision of a number
oceanic and continental plates or terranes. This can be ascribed to four orogenic episodes …

Reconstructing plate boundaries in the Jurassic neo‐Tethys from the east and west Vardar ophiolites (Greece and Serbia)

M Maffione, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Jurassic subduction initiation in the Neo‐Tethys Ocean eventually led to the collision of the
Adria‐Africa and Eurasia continents and the formation of an~ 6,000 km long Alpine orogen …

Geological evolution of the Central Pontides

AI Okay, D Altiner, G Sunal, M Aygül… - Geological Society …, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Before the Late Cretaceous opening of the Black Sea, the Central Pontides
constituted part of the southern margin of Laurasia. Two features that distinguish the Central …

[PDF][PDF] Jurassic ophiolite formation and emplacement as backstop to a subduction-accretion complex in northeast Turkey, the Refahıye ophiolite, and relation to the …

G Topuz, ÖF Çelık, AMC Şengör, İE Altintaş… - American Journal of …, 2013 - ajsonline.org
The eastern Mediterranean region within the Tethyan realm shows a high concentration of
ophiolites with contrasting times of formation and emplacement along the belt: In 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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Intra-Pontide ophiolites in Northern Turkey revisited: From birth to death of a Neotethyan oceanic domain

M Marroni, MC Göncüoğlu, C Frassi, K Sayit… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Anatolian peninsula is a key location to study the central portion of the Neotethys Ocean
(s) and to understand how its western and eastern branches were connected. One of the …

Revisiting the depositional age and provenance characteristics of metasedimentary rocks from the basement units in the Central Pontides (N Turkey): New constraints …

O Çimen, MA Gücer, C Akal, MC Göncüoğlu… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
The pre-Jurassic tectonic evolution of the Central Pontides in northern Turkey is still poorly
understood due to the lack of detailed geochemical and geochronological data from the …