This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

The Cretaceous to Miocene palaeogeographic development of Turkey in general reflects the
evolution of the various oceanic branches of Neo‐Tethys together with interactions between …

The Gümüşhane pluton, a high-K calc-alkaline I-type granodiorite/granite complex, forms an
important component of the pre-Liassic basement of the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey). In its …

The Hercynian Köse composite pluton (KCP) is located in the Eastern Pontides, Turkey, and
consists of two units of high-K calc-alkaline, primarily peraluminous granites:(i) the internal …

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 Black Sea basin originated as a back-arc basin during Cretaceous times. Continental
rifting took place during the Aptian to Albian with large-scale crustal thinning and separation …

Abstract The Pontides in northern Turkey constituted part of the southern active margin of
Eurasia during the Mesozoic. In the Early Cretaceous, a large submarine turbidite fan …

Biostratigraphic, isotopic, and petrologic data from the Central Pontides document major
southward growth of the Eurasian continental crust by subduction-accretion during the …

The Eastern Pontide active continental margin extends along the eastern part of the Black
Sea with an E±W trend and comprises the parallel oriented northern, southern and axial …

A major change in oceanic sedimentation from mid-Cretaceous organic carbon-enriched
deep-sea deposits to predominantly Upper Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) …