Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Auer, A Billi… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

Eastern Turkish high plateau as a small Turkic-type orogen: Implications for post-collisional crust-forming processes in Turkic-type orogens

AMC Şengör, MS Özeren, M Keskin, M Sakınç… - Earth-Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Post-collisional magmatism may be generated by extensive crustal melting in Tibet-type
collisional environments or by falling out of slabs from under giant subduction–accretion …

Apatite fission-track data for the Miocene Arabia-Eurasia collision

AI Okay, M Zattin, W Cavazza - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The collision between the Eurasian and Arabian plates along the 2400-km-long Bitlis-
Zagros thrust zone isolated the Mediterranean from the Indian Ocean and has been linked to …

Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus

TF Schildgen, C Yıldırım, D Cosentino… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus are integral parts of the world's third
largest orogenic plateau. In the past decade, geophysical surveys have provided insights …

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Jolivet, M Keskin - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle East region represents a key site within the Tethyan domain where
continental break-up, collision, backarc extension and escape tectonics are kinematically …

The Miocene-to-present kinematic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and its implications for dynamics

X Le Pichon, C Kreemer - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The present kinematics in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East is now well
constrained by GPS measurements and dominated by a circular counterclockwise motion …

'PALEOVAN', International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): site survey results and perspectives

T Litt, S Krastel, M Sturm, R Kipfer, S Örcen… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (volume 607km3, area 3570km2,
maximum depth 460m), extending for 130km WSW–ENE on the Eastern Anatolian High …

A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)

T Litt, N Pickarski, G Heumann, M Stockhecke… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (38.5° N, 43° E, volume 607 km 3,
area 3570 km 2, maximum water depth 460 m), extending for 130 km WSW–ENE on the …

Kinematic reconstructions and magmatic evolution illuminating crustal and mantle dynamics of the eastern Mediterranean region since the late Cretaceous

A Menant, L Jolivet, B Vrielynck - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
The relationship between subduction dynamics and crustal deformation in the
Mediterranean region has been recently studied using three-dimensional (3D) models. Such …

Petrology and geochemistry of post-collisional Middle Eocene volcanic units in North-Central Turkey: evidence for magma generation by slab breakoff following the …

M Keskin, ŞC Genç, O Tüysüz - Lithos, 2008 - Elsevier
The Eocene volcano-sedimentary units of Northern Anatolia are confined into a narrow zone
trending parallel to the Intra Pontide and İzmir–Ankara–Erzincan sutures, along which the …