[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 …

Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure

A Licht, G Métais, P Coster, D İbilioğlu, F Ocakoğlu… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Grande Coupure corresponds to a major episode of faunal turnover in western
Europe around the Eocene-Oligocene boundary that is generally attributed to the influx of …

[HTML][HTML] Skeleton of an unusual, cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey

AM Maga, RMD Beck - PLoS One, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
We describe a near-complete, three-dimensionally preserved skeleton of a metatherian
(relative of modern marsupials) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44–43 million years ago) …

Multiple exhumation phases in the Central Pontides (N Turkey): New temporal constraints on major geodynamic changes associated with the closure of the Neo …

P Ballato, M Parra, TF Schildgen, I Dunkl, C Yıldırım… - …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Central Pontides of N Turkey represents a mobile orogenic belt of the southern
Eurasian margin that experienced several phases of exhumation associated with the …

Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous

PJ McPhee, A Koç, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Tectonophysics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Central Anatolia (Turkey) is a small and nascent example of a high orogenic
plateau, providing a natural laboratory to study processes driving plateau rise. The 1-km …

Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time

G Metais, PM Coster, JR Kappelman, A Licht… - PloS one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary
biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has …

Collision chronology along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan suture zone: Insights from the Sarıcakaya Basin, western Anatolia

MA Mueller, A Licht, C Campbell, F Ocakoğlu… - …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Debate persists concerning the timing and geodynamics of intercontinental collision, style of
syncollisional deformation, and development of topography and fold‐and‐thrust belts along …

Dental anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of Orhaniyeia nauta (Metatheria, Anatoliadelphyidae), a Gondwanan component of the insular Eocene …

KC Beard, PMC Coster, F Ocakoğlu, A Licht… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023‏ - Springer
Two new specimens of the anatoliadelphyid metatherian Orhaniyeia nauta are described
from the middle Eocene Uzunçarşıdere Formation in the Orhaniye Basin, north-central …

Sedimentary provenance from the evolving forearc‐to‐foreland Central Sakarya Basin, western Anatolia reveals multi‐phase intercontinental collision

MA Mueller, A Licht, C Campbell… - Geochemistry …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Collision between the Pontides and Anatolide‐Tauride Block along the İzmir‐Ankara‐
Erzincan suture in Anatolia has been variously estimated from the Late Cretaceous to …

Chronology of subduction and collision along the İzmir-Ankara suture in Western Anatolia: records from the Central Sakarya Basin

F Ocakoğlu, A Hakyemez, S Açıkalın… - International Geology …, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Western Anatolia is a complex assemblage of terranes, including the Sakarya Terrane and
the Tauride-Anatolide Platform that collided during the late Cretaceous and Palaeogene (80 …