Triassic to Pleistocene sandstones of the Kyrenia Range, N Cyprus provide an exceptional repository of the erosional history of Anatolia. The Kyrenia Range features several different …
MC Göncüoğlu - Mineral resources of Turkey, 2019 - Springer
The geodynamic evolution of Turkey is mainly controlled by drift and collision of a number oceanic and continental plates or terranes. This can be ascribed to four orogenic episodes …
Abstract The Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt (SAOB) resulted from the north-dipping subduction of the southern Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere in late Mesozoic and early …
Reconstructions of the Anatolian continent and adjacent areas assume the existence of one or more continental fragments during Mesozoic–Early Cenozoic time. These rifted from …
Abstract The Sakarya Zone (northern Turkey) is a Gondwana-derived continental block accreted to northern Laurussia during the Carboniferous, and is regarded as the eastward …
Abstract The Middle Cretaceous–Late Miocene sedimentary successions that are exposed on the Arabian continental margin (near Adıyaman) provide valuable insights into …
MA Erturk, M Beyarslan, SL Chung, TH Lin - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The origin and geodynamic setting of the Maden Complex, which is situated in the Bitlis- Zagros Suture Zone in the Southeast Anatolian Orogenic Belt, is still controversial due to …
Abstract The Anatolide-Tauride block in the Tethyan belt represented passive northern continental margin of Gondwana throughout Paleozoic time. In this paper, we report on a …
The radiolaritic facies (red/green cherts with radiolarians) is a very characteristic feature of the Tethyan realm. For a long time, its presence has been interpreted as a consequence of …