[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

[HTML][HTML] Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

DG Van der Meer, DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Spakman - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Across the entire mantle we interpret 94 positive seismic wave-speed anomalies as
subducted lithosphere and associate these slabs with their geological record. We document …

Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the active margin of Eurasia: Southern Central Pontides, Turkey

AI Okay, G Sunal, S Sherlock, D Alt ner… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, M Maffione, A Plunder… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In Central and Western Anatolia two continent‐derived massifs simultaneously
underthrusted an oceanic lithosphere in the Cretaceous and ended up with very contrasting …

Kinematics of Late Cretaceous subduction initiation in the Neo‐Tethys Ocean reconstructed from ophiolites of Turkey, Cyprus, and Syria

M Maffione, DJJ van Hinsbergen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Formation of new subduction zones represents one of the cornerstones of plate tectonics,
yet both the kinematics and geodynamics governing this process remain enigmatic. A major …

Low‐pressure–high‐temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc, Central Pontides, Turkey

AI Okay, G Sunal, O Tüysüz, S Sherlock… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Magmatic arcs are zones of high heat flow; however, examples of metamorphic belts formed
under magmatic arcs are rare. In the Pontides in northern Turkey, along the southern active …

Tectonic setting of the Jurassic bimodal magmatism in the Sakarya Zone (Central and Western Pontides), Northern Turkey: a geochemical and isotopic approach

ŞC Genç, O Tüysüz - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
The Lower to Middle Jurassic Mudurnu formation of the Sakarya Zone (Northern Turkey)
was deposited in an extensional basin. This unit crops out along the southern Pontide range …

Oceanization of the northern Neotethys: geochemical evidence from ophiolitic melange basalts within the Izmir–Ankara suture belt, NW Turkey

MC Göncüoglu, K Sayit, UK Tekin - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
The remnants of the Neotethyan Izmir–Ankara Ocean, the main branch of Neotethys in the
eastern Mediterranean are represented by the Dagküplü Melange Complex in Central …

New synthesis of the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone and the Ankara mélange in northern Anatolia based on new geochemical and geochronological constraints

E Sarıfakıoğlu, Y Dilek, M Sevin - 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The EW–trending Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone in northern Anatolia
represents a major Neotethyan suture zone separating the Eurasian and Gondwana …

No sediment transport across the Tethys ocean during the latest Cretaceous: detrital zircon record from the Pontides and the Anatolide–Tauride Block

AI Okay, ARC Kylander‐Clark - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
We report detrital zircon ages from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian)
turbiditic sandstones from the Pontides and the Anatolide–Tauride Block, which were …