Geodynamics, seismicity, and seismic hazards of the Caucasus

A Ismail-Zadeh, S Adamia, A Chabukiani… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Being a part of ongoing continental collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, the
Caucasus region is a remarkable site of moderate to strong seismicity, where devastating …

[HTML][HTML] The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution

M Sosson, R Stephenson, Y Sheremet… - Comptes Rendus …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report new observations in the eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region that allow
reconstructing the evolution of the Neotethys in the Cretaceous. At that time, the Neotethys …

[HTML][HTML] Tectonics in the Greater Caucasus (Georgia–Russia): From an intracontinental rifted basin to a doubly verging fold-and-thrust belt

J Mosar, J Mauvilly, K Koiava, I Gamkrelidze… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Greater Caucasus doubly-vergent orogenic system has its origin in a Mesozoic-
Early Cenozoic back-arc-type basin, floored by an extensively stretched and heavily …

[HTML][HTML] Five-fold expansion of the Caspian Sea in the late Pliocene: New and revised magnetostratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Akchagylian Stage

S Lazarev, KF Kuiper, O Oms, M Bukhsianidze… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Global climate reorganisation in the late Pliocene linked to enhancement of the Atlantic
Ocean Thermohaline Circulation (AOTC), instigated a transition to glacial-interglacial …

Active tectonics of central-western Caucasus, Georgia

N Tsereteli, A Tibaldi, V Alania, A Gventsadse… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
This work contributes to a better knowledge of potentially seismogenic faults of the Georgia
Greater and Lesser Caucasus by evaluating the distribution of earthquake foci, active …

Structural inversion of back-arc basins–The Neogene Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt (SW Georgia) as a far-field effect of the Arabia-Eurasia collision

T Gusmeo, W Cavazza, VM Alania, OV Enukidze… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 350 km-long Adjara-Trialeti fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Georgia is the
result of the structural inversion of a continental back-arc basin developed in the Paleogene …

[HTML][HTML] Two-step exhumation of Caucasian intraplate rifts: A proxy of sequential plate-margin collisional orogenies

W Cavazza, T Gusmeo, M Zattin, V Alania… - Geoscience …, 2024 - Elsevier
Intraplate structural deformation is diagnostic of tectonic stress regime changes linked to
plate interactions and can result from superposed tectonic events whose single contributions …

Building a Young Mountain Range: Insight Into the Growth of the Greater Caucasus Mountains From Detrital Zircon (U‐Th)/He Thermochronology and 10Be Erosion …

AM Forte, KR Gutterman, MC van Soest… - Tectonics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Greater Caucasus (GC) Mountains within the central Arabia‐Eurasia collision
zone are an archetypal example of a young collisional orogen. However, the mechanisms …

Synopsis of the terrestrial vertebrate faunas from the Middle Kura Basin (Eastern Georgia and Western Azerbaijan, South Caucasus)

M Bukhsianidze, K Koiava - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 - agro.icm.edu.pl
This paper summarizes knowledge on the Neogene–Quaternary terrestrial fossil record from
the Middle Kura Basin accumulated over a century and aims to its integration into the current …

Active inversion tectonics, simple shear folding and back-thrusting at Rioni Basin, Georgia

A Tibaldi, V Alania, FL Bonali, O Enukidze… - Journal of Structural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rioni Basin, located between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus in Georgia, is
an outstanding example of ongoing inversion tectonics. Marine and continental deposits of …