Abstract The South Armenian Block (SAB) belongs to the Lesser Caucasus, and it is located where the Central Tethyan belt bends from an EW orientation in Turkey to the NW-oriented …
MH Darin, PJ Umhoefer - International Geology Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The persistent debate over the timing of initial Arabia–Eurasia collision has eluded consensus for decades, with most estimates ranging widely from~ 50 to 10 Ma along both …
Indentation of the Arabian platform into the eastern domain of the Anatolide-Tauride Block (ATB) led to sub-horizontal rupture and break-off of the Arabian segment of the subducting …
Abstract The Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt (SAOB) resulted from the north-dipping subduction of the southern Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere in late Mesozoic and early …
The Bitlis-Pütürge collision zone of SE Turkey is the area of maximum indentation along the> 2400-km-long Assyrian-Zagros suture between Arabia and Eurasia. The integration of …
SJ Vincent, W Braham, VA Lavrishchev… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The western Greater Caucasus formed by the tectonic inversion of the western strand of the Greater Caucasus Basin, a Mesozoic rift that opened at the southern margin of …
The core of Turkey's land is the Anatolian Peninsula, which is surrounded by several seas (Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea). Offering a high variety of morphological …
We report the results of a study on early Miocene to Pleistocene volcanic rocks cropping out west of the Karlıova Triple Junction in Eastern Anatolia (Elazığ, Tunceli, and Bingöl …
Three published alternative tectonic models of the Permian-Pleistocene development of the Kyrenia Range, N Cyprus are tested, supported by new field, geochemical and …