Caucasus collisional history: Review of data from East Anatolia to West Iran

Y Rolland - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the geodynamic evolution of the Caucasus mountain belt from the
Paleozoic to Present based on a review of works from Eastern Anatolia, Greater and Lesser …

A review of the plate convergence history of the East Anatolia-Transcaucasus region during the Variscan: Insights from the Georgian basement and its connection to …

Y Rolland, M Hässig, D Bosch, MJM Meijers… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the geodynamic evolution of the Variscan to Mesozoic Tethyan
subduction history, based on a review of geochronological data from Eastern Anatolia and …

Variscan orogeny in the Black Sea region

AI Okay, G Topuz - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Two Gondwana-derived Paleozoic belts rim the Archean/Paleoproterozoic nucleus
of the East European Platform in the Black Sea region. In the north is a belt of Paleozoic …

Constraints on Variscan and Cimmerian magmatism and metamorphism in the Pontides (Yusufeli–Artvin area), NE Turkey from U–Pb dating and granite geochemistry

T Ustaömer, AHF Robertson, PA Ustaömer… - Geological Society …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
Metamorphic and igneous rocks exposed in NW-vergent thrust sheets and their
autocthonous basement in the NE Pontides were dated by the U–Pb method using zircons …

The amalgamation of Pangea: Paleomagnetic and geological observations revisited

L Wu, JB Murphy, C Quesada, ZX Li… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The supercontinent Pangea formed by the subduction of the Iapetus and Rheic oceans
between Gondwana, Laurentia, and Baltica during mid-to-late Paleozoic times. However …

Reconstructing plate boundaries in the Jurassic neo‐Tethys from the east and west Vardar ophiolites (Greece and Serbia)

M Maffione, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Jurassic subduction initiation in the Neo‐Tethys Ocean eventually led to the collision of the
Adria‐Africa and Eurasia continents and the formation of an~ 6,000 km long Alpine orogen …

Subduction-related Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Magmatism in the Eastern Pontides, the Camlik and Casurluk plutons: Insights from geochemistry, whole-rock …

O Karsli, A Dokuz, R Kandemir - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Carboniferous to early Permian granitoid rocks represent a volumetrically
minor component of the Eastern Pontide lithosphere, but they preserve useful information …

Late Jurassic magmatism and stratigraphy in the eastern Sakarya zone, Turkey: Evidence for the slab breakoff of Paleotethyan oceanic lithosphere

A Dokuz, E Aydınçakır, R Kandemir… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Middle-Late Jurassic Cimmerian events in Turkey have been actively discussed in
the past three decades, but proposed tectonic models associated with magmatism …

Zircon Lu-Hf isotope systematics and U–Pb geochronology, whole-rock Sr-Nd isotopes and geochemistry of the early Jurassic Gokcedere pluton, Sakarya Zone-NE …

O Karsli, A Dokuz, R Kandemir - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2017 - Springer
The early Mesozoic was a critical era for the geodynamic evolution of the Sakarya Zone as
transition from accretion to collision events in the region. However, its complex evolutionary …

Latest Cretaceous “A2-type” granites in the Sakarya Zone, NE Turkey: Partial melting of mafic lower crust in response to roll-back of Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere

O Karsli, F Aydin, I Uysal, A Dokuz, M Kumral… - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
An integrated study of comprehensive geochronological, geochemical, and Sr-Nd-Hf
isotopic data was undertaken for the A-type Topcam pluton that intruded within the Sakarya …