Late Paleocene–early Eocene Tethyan carbonate platform evolution—a response to long-and short-term paleoclimatic change

C Scheibner, RP Speijer - Earth-science reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
The early Paleogene experienced the most pronounced long-term warming trend of the
Cenozoic, superimposed by transient warming events such as the Paleocene–Eocene …

The Eocene carbonate platforms of the westernmost Tethys: a review

M Martín-Martín, J Tosquella, F Guerrera… - International Geology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
According to the prevailing view in literature, two Eocene carbonate platform belts
developed on northern and southern margins of the Tethys Ocean. However, Eocene …

Geological evolution of the Central Pontides

AI Okay, D Altiner, G Sunal, M Aygül… - Geological Society …, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Before the Late Cretaceous opening of the Black Sea, the Central Pontides
constituted part of the southern margin of Laurasia. Two features that distinguish the Central …

Evolution of shallow benthic communities during the Late Paleocene–earliest Eocene transition in the Northern Tethys (SW Slovenia)

J Zamagni, M Mutti, A Košir - Facies, 2008 - Springer
A paleoecological and sedimentological study was carried out on shallow-water carbonates
of the Kras Plateau (SW Slovenia) with the goal of reconstructing paleoenvironmental …

Evolution of Paleocene to Early Eocene larger benthic foraminifer assemblages of the Indus Basin, Pakistan

J Afzal, M Williams, MJ Leng, RJ Aldridge… - Lethaia, 2011 - idunn.no
The Paleocene–Early Eocene carbonate successions of the Indus Basin in Pakistan formed
on the northwestern continental shelf margin of the Indian Plate in the eastern Tethys Ocean …

Tectonically driven carbonate ramp evolution at the southern Tethyan shelf: the Lower Eocene succession of the Galala Mountains, Egypt

S Höntzsch, C Scheibner, J Kuss, AM Marzouk… - Facies, 2011 - Springer
The succession of the Galala Mountains at the southern Tethyan margin (Eastern Desert,
Egypt) provides new data for the evolution of an isolated carbonate platform in the Early …

The Baroch Nala section (NE Pakistan): A new PETM standard for the eastern Tethys

M Ali, G Coletti, E Garzanti, T Adatte… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2025 - Elsevier
We present an integrated, high-resolution, biostratigraphical, mineralogical, and
geochemical characterization of the well-exposed Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene …

Maastrichtian-Paleocene larger Foraminifera biostratigraphy and facies of the Şahinkaya Member (NE Sakarya Zone, Turkey): Insights into the Eastern Pontides arc …

L Consorti, F Köroğlu - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Maastrichtian to Paleocene shallow-water carbonate rocks are common in many parts of
Turkey. The occurrence of the Şahinkaya Member limestones in the Çayırbağı-Çalköy …

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 …

A review of the geology and geodynamic evolution of tectonic terranes in Turkey

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 …