Abstract The Karakaya Complex in the Pontides consists of highly deformed and partly
metamorphosed clastic and volcanic series of Permian and Triassic age. It is generally …

Post-collisional magmatism may be generated by extensive crustal melting in Tibet-type
collisional environments or by falling out of slabs from under giant subduction–accretion …

The two main Tethyan sutures of Turkey, the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan and the Intra-Pontide
sutures, are reviewed through several well-studied transects crossing the suture regions …

Diachronous subsidence patterns of Tethyan margins since the Early Palaeozoic provide
constraints for paleocontinental reconstructions and the opening of disappeared oceans …

This chapter describes the internal divisions and the orogenic evolution of the Pontides, the
northernmost tectonic division of Turkey. The Pontides are an east-west–trending orogenic …

The Eastern Mediterranean region exhibits a fascinating diversity of ophiolites and related
oceanic magmatic units of mainly Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous age. Comparisons with …

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 …

Earlier geological work in the Istanbul zone, western Pontide tectonic belt, has revealed the
presence of extensive basement outcrops exposed underneath Palaeozoic and Mesozoic to …

The Black Sea comprises two extensional basins formed in a back-arc setting above the
northward subducting Tethys Ocean, close to the southern margin of Eurasia. The two …

The Menderes Massif covers large areas in western Turkey. The better understanding of its
tectono-metamorphic history would provide insight for the Alpine evolution of western Turkey …