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 …

Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat

L Jolivet, C Faccenna, B Huet, L Labrousse… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
We review the geodynamic evolution of the Aegean–Anatolia region and discuss strain
localisation there over geological times. From Late Eocene to Present, crustal deformation in …

Arc magmas sourced from mélange diapirs in subduction zones

HR Marschall, JC Schumacher - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
At subduction zones, crustal material enters the mantle. Some of this material, however, is
returned to the overriding plate through volcanic and plutonic activity. Magmas erupted …

Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan …

H Furnes, Y Dilek, G Zhao, I Safonova, M Santosh - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Ophiolites are important archives of oceanic crust development and preservation in the rock
record, and the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt (AHOB) is one of the most comprehensive …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Cycladic Blueschist Unit of the Hellenic subduction orogen: Protracted high-pressure metamorphism, decompression and reimbrication of a diachronous …

J Glodny, U Ring - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss the assembly and tectonochronology of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit (CBU) in
the central Aegean Sea region, Greece, as a composite, subduction-related, high-pressure …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid, paced metamorphism of blueschists (Syros, Greece) from laser-based zoned Lu-Hf garnet chronology and LA-ICPMS trace element mapping

L Tual, MA Smit, J Cutts, E Kooijman… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unravelling the timing and rate of subduction-zone metamorphism and H 2 O release
requires linking time to the compositional changes of petrogenetic indicator minerals in …

Tectonostratigraphic models of the Alpine terranes and subduction history of the Hellenides

D Papanikolaou - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The tectonostratigraphy of the Hellenic terranes is related to their paleogeodynamic and
paleogeographic evolution, which comprises three major stages:(i) Continental rifting in the …

Petrogenetic relationships between jadeitite and associated high-pressure and low-temperature metamorphic rocks in worldwide jadeitite localities: a review

T Tsujimori, GE Harlow - European Journal of Mineralogy, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Jadeitite-bearing serpentinite-matrix mélange is distributed in the Caribbean (Guatemala,
Cuba, and Dominican Republic), circum-Pacific (Japan, Western USA, and Papua New …

[HTML][HTML] Length scales and types of heterogeneities along the deep subduction interface: Insights from exhumed rocks on Syros Island, Greece

AJ Kotowski, WM Behr - Geosphere, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We use structural and microstructural observations from exhumed subduction-related rocks
exposed on Syros Island (Cyclades, Greece) to provide constraints on the length scales and …