Drip tectonics and the enigmatic uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau

OH Göğüş, RN Pysklywec, AMC Şengör… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Lithospheric drips have been interpreted for various regions around the globe to account for
the recycling of the continental lithosphere and rapid plateau uplift. However, the validity of …

The Atlas of Morocco: A plume‐assisted orogeny

R Lanari, C Faccenna, C Natali… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We explore the connections between crustal shortening, volcanism, and mantle dynamics in
the Atlas of Morocco. In response to compressional forces and strain localization, this …

Neogene uplift and magmatism of Anatolia: Insights from drainage analysis and basaltic geochemistry

F McNab, PW Ball, MJ Hoggard… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It is agreed that mantle dynamics have played a role in generating and maintaining the
elevated topography of Anatolia during Neogene times. However, there is debate about the …

Shallow melting of MORB‐like mantle under hot continental lithosphere, C entral A natolia

MR Reid, WK Schleiffarth, MA Cosca… - Geochemistry …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread mafic volcanism, elevated crustal temperatures, and plateau‐type topography
in Central Anatolia, Turkey, could collectively be the result of lithospheric delamination …

Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation within an uplifting orogenic plateau

AJ Andersen, OH Göğüş, RN Pysklywec… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
According to GNSS/INSAR measurements, the Konya Basin in Central Anatolia is
undergoing rapid subsidence within an uplifting orogenic plateau. Further, geophysical …

Subduction and vertical coastal motions in the eastern Mediterranean

A Howell, J Jackson, A Copley… - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Convergence in the eastern Mediterranean of oceanic Nubia with Anatolia and the Aegean
is complex and poorly understood. Large volumes of sediment obscure the shallow structure …

Seismic tomographic imaging of the Eastern Mediterranean mantle: implications for terminal‐stage subduction, the uplift of Anatolia, and the development of the North …

R Kounoudis, ID Bastow, CS Ogden… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean captures the east‐west transition from active
subduction of Earth's oldest oceanic lithosphere to continental collision, making it an ideal …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-lithospheric origin of Na-alkaline and calc-alkaline magmas in a post-collisional tectonic regime: Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes in recent monogenetic volcanism of …

P Di Giuseppe, S Agostini, P Manetti, MY Savaşçın… - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Intense Cenozoic magmatism accompanied the convergence and collision of the Eurasian,
African and Arabian plates. In the Cappadocia Region of Central Anatolia, widespread and …

Evidence for 1.5 km of uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau's southern margin in the last 450 kyr and implications for its multiphased uplift history

N Öğretmen, P Cipollari, V Frezza, C Faranda… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
At the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), marine deposits that overlie
the Central Tauride units at up to 2 km of elevation were used to constrain the onset of uplift …

[HTML][HTML] Melt equilibration depths as sensors of lithospheric thickness during Eurasia-Arabia collision and the uplift of the Anatolian Plateau

MR Reid, JR Delph, MA Cosca, WK Schleiffarth… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A co-investigation of mantle melting conditions and seismic structure revealed an
evolutionary record of mantle dynamics accompanying the transition from subduction to …