The North Anatolian fault: A new look

AMC Şengör, O Tüysüz, C Imren… - Annu. Rev. Earth …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Dedicated to the memory of three pioneers, İhsan Ketin, Sırrı Erinç and Melih
Tokay, and a recent student, Aykut Barka, who burnt himself out in pursuit of the mysteries of …

Eastern Turkish high plateau as a small Turkic-type orogen: Implications for post-collisional crust-forming processes in Turkic-type orogens

AMC Şengör, MS Özeren, M Keskin, M Sakınç… - Earth-Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

Active seismotectonics of the East Anatolian fault

SE Güvercin, H Karabulut, AÖ Konca… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a 700-km-long left-lateral transform fault
located between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. The proximity of the Euler Pole to the …

Late Cenozoic reorganization of the Arabia‐Eurasia collision and the comparison of short‐term and long‐term deformation rates

M Allen, J Jackson, R Walker - Tectonics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The Arabia‐Eurasia collision deforms an area of∼ 3,000,000 km2 of continental crust,
making it one of the largest regions of convergent deformation on Earth. There are now …

Magma generation by slab steepening and breakoff beneath a subduction‐accretion complex: An alternative model for collision‐related volcanism in Eastern Anatolia …

M Keskin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Eastern Anatolia is regarded as one of the best examples of continental collision,
represented by a 2 km high plateau. It displays shallow and diffuse seismicity, indicating that …

Segmented African lithosphere beneath the Anatolian region inferred from teleseismic P-wave tomography

C Berk Biryol, SL Beck, G Zandt… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lithospheric deformation throughout Anatolia, a part of the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt,
is controlled mainly by collision-related tectonic escape of the Anatolian Plate and …

Criteria and tools for determining drainage divide stability

AM Forte, KX Whipple - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Watersheds are the fundamental organizing units in landscapes and thus the controls on
drainage divide location and mobility are an essential facet of landscape evolution …

Geochemistry and tectonics of Cenozoic volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaijan) and the peri-Arabian region: collision-induced mantle dynamics and its …

Y Dilek, N Imamverdiyev… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The Lesser Caucasus occurs in the hinterland of the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone in the
broad Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt and includes Cenozoic plutonic and volcanic …

Structural styles in the Zagros simple folded zone, Iran

EJP Blanc, MB Allen, S Inger… - Journal of the Geological …, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
Arabia–Eurasia convergence is achieved in the NW Zagros by a combination of shortening
on NW–SE-trending folds and thrusts, mainly in the Simple Folded Zone, and by right-lateral …

Slab detachment beneath eastern Anatolia: A possible cause for the formation of the North Anatolian fault

C Faccenna, O Bellier, J Martinod, C Piromallo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we discuss the possibility that the North Anatolian fault (NAF) results from the
deep deformation of the slab beneath the Bitlis–Hellenic subduction zone. We described the …