İzmir‐Ankara suture as a Triassic to cretaceous Plate Boundary—data from central Anatolia

AI Okay, G Sunal, S Sherlock, ARC Kylander‐Clark… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The İzmir‐Ankara suture represents part of the boundary between Laurasia and Gondwana
along which a wide Tethyan ocean was subducted. In northwest Turkey, it is associated with …

Crustal structure of the Eastern Anatolia Region (Turkey) based on seismic tomography

I Medved, G Polat, I Koulakov - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Here, we investigated the crustal structure beneath eastern Anatolia, an area of high
seismicity and critical significance for earthquake hazards in Turkey. The study was based …

Neotethyan Ankara Melange, central Turkey in its Triassic-Eocene regional tectonic setting including accretionary melanges, magmatic arcs and continental units

A Harry Forbes Robertson, O Parlak… - International Geology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The classic Neotethyan Ankara Melange formed within the Triassic-Eocene
İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan ocean ('N Neotethys'), bordered in central Anatolia by the Kırşehir …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale, crustal-block vertical extrusion between the Hines Creek and Denali faults coeval with slip localization on the Denali fault since ca. 45 Ma, Hayes …

JA Benowitz, SM Roeske, SP Regan… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Oblique convergence along strike-slip faults can lead to both distributed and localized
deformation. How focused transpressive deformation is both localized and maintained along …

Thrace basin—An Oligocene clastic basin formed during the exhumation of the Rhodope Complex

AI Okay, E Özcan, M Siyako, KA Bürkan… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Some orogenic sedimentary basins are difficult to assign to a particular category. An
example is the hydrocarbon‐bearing Thrace Basin in the northern Aegean. It has more than …

Middle Devonian, late Carboniferous, and Triassic magmatic flare-ups in eastern Armorica (Sakarya Zone, Turkey) as revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data

G Topuz, O Candan, O Laurent… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Sakarya Zone of northern Turkey contains a well-preserved Early–Middle
Jurassic and Late Cretaceous submarine magmatic arc constructed over pre-Jurassic …

Late Paleocene–Middle Eocene magmatic flare-up in western Anatolia

AI Okay, G Topuz, ARC Kylander-Clark, S Sherlock… - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
A 3000-km long magmatic belt of predominantly Eocene age extends from Anatolia into Iran
representing a major magmatic flare-up. We present new zircon U-Pb, Ar/Ar mica and …

Zircon and Apatite U‐Pb Constraints on the Tectonic Affinity and Metamorphic History of the Blueschist‐Facies Ambelakia Unit, Mt. Ossa, Greece

ER Hinshaw, DF Stockli, K Soukis - Tectonics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the Aegean region, the Cycladic Blueschist Unit (CBU) and the Ambelakia unit (Mt. Ossa,
Thessaly, Greece) represent early Cenozoic subduction‐related HP‐LT metamorphic …

Migration of the Palaeozoic magmatic front from Zagros to Alborz mountains with progressive closure of the Palaeo-Tethys Ocean; Insights from Zagros detrital zircon …

A Mohammadi, A Kaveh-Firouz, F Cai, A Dolati, N Lom… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The northwest-southeast-trending Zagros Fold-and Thrust Belt in south Iran resulted from
the late Oligocene to the early Miocene collision of the Arabian and Central Iran blocks. The …

Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous

PJ McPhee, A Koç, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Central Anatolia (Turkey) is a small and nascent example of a high orogenic
plateau, providing a natural laboratory to study processes driving plateau rise. The 1-km …