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 …

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 …

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-dip**
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 …

Shallow-marine carbonate deposition was widespread across the Arabian Plate during
much of the Late Permian–Mesozoic but was significantly interrupted by a major tectonically …

We report the results of a study on early Miocene to Pleistocene volcanic rocks crop** out
west of the Karlıova Triple Junction in Eastern Anatolia (Elazığ, Tunceli, and Bingöl …

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 …

The world's largest ongoing collisional orogeny is the Europe Alps–Himalayan–SE Asian
belt and is a natural laboratory to understand many processes that have shaped the …