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 …

Episodic formation of Neotethyan ophiolites (Tibetan plateau): Snapshots of abrupt global plate reorganizations during major episodes of supercontinent breakup?

Q Qian, J Hermann, F Dong, L Lin, B Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Neotethyan ophiolites along the Bangong-Nujiang and Yarlung Tsangpo sutures, Tibetan
plateau, consist of mantle peridotite, cumulates, isotropic gabbro, diabase, plagiogranite and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution

M Sosson, R Stephenson, Y Sheremet… - Comptes Rendus …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report new observations in the eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region that allow
reconstructing the evolution of the Neotethys in the Cretaceous. At that time, the Neotethys …

Temporal, geochemical and geodynamic evolution of the Late Cretaceous subduction zone volcanism in the eastern Sakarya Zone, NE Turkey: Implications for mantle …

F Aydin, SO Saka, C Şen, A Dokuz… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Cretaceous Artvin volcanic rocks (LCAVs) from the eastern Sakarya zone
(ESZ) of NE Turkey are composed of mafic/basaltic (S1-Çatak and S2-Çağlayan) and …

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 …

A downgoing Indian lithosphere control on along-strike variability of porphyry mineralization in the Gangdese belt of southern Tibet

X Sun, Y Lu, Q Li, R Li - Economic Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The E-trending Gangdese porphyry copper belt in southern Tibet is a classic example of
porphyry mineralization in a continental collision zone. New zircon U-Pb geochronological …

The phanerozoic palaeotectonics of Turkey. Part I: an inventory

AMC Şengör, N Lom, G Sunal, C Zabcı… - Mediterranean …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents an inventory of the relevant information to delineate the Tethyside
sutures and the continental blocks they stitch in Turkey and to summarise their history. A …

The uplift of an early stage collisional plateau unraveled by fluvial network analysis and river longitudinal profile inversion: the case of the eastern Anatolian plateau

P Molin, A Sembroni, P Ballato, C Faccenna - Tectonics, 2023 - gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de
Orogenic plateaus of continental collision zones exhibit landforms and fluvial networks that
retain first-order information on their topographic evolution and vertical growth. The …

Tethyan subduction and Cretaceous rift magmatism at the southern margin of Eurasia: Evidence for crustal evolution of the South Caspian Basin

I Monsef, Z Zhang, E Shabanian, P le Roux… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous rift magmatic activity along the southern margin of Eurasia is ideal for
testing how the far-field magmatism, with alkaline to calc-alkaline igneous rocks along the …