Abstract The global Hangenberg Crisis near the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary (DCB)
represents a mass extinction that is of the same scale as the so-called 'Big Five'first-order …

Abstract The Cimmerian Continent is the narrow continental strip that rifted from the
northeastern Gondwana-Land margin mostly during the Permian between the present-day …

The Hercynian Köse composite pluton (KCP) is located in the Eastern Pontides, Turkey, and
consists of two units of high-K calc-alkaline, primarily peraluminous granites:(i) the internal …

Valid palaeotectonic and palaeogeographical reconstructions of the easternmost
Mediterranean and adjacent region involve a long-lived Tethys (Rheic, Palaeotethyan and …

Numerous intrusive rocks of varying ages and compositions exist in the Paleozoic to Tertiary
periods in the Eastern Pontides. Carboniferous intrusive rocks are commonly observed in …

The distribution of oceanic domains and continental blocks in Central Anatolia remains a
challenge in understanding the Alpine geodynamic evolution of the Tethys realm. The …

Abstract The Tauride–Anatolide continent, stretching for c. 900 km across western and
central Turkey, is one of the world's best example of a subducted, exhumed passive margin …

The northward subduction of the Paleo-Tethys beneath the southern margin of Laurasia
during the Triassic caused the development of an extensional tectonic regime on the …

This paper proposes a synthesis of the taxonomy, phylogeny, palaeogeographic distribution,
regional biostratigraphy, and palaeobiogeographic faunal development of Carboniferous …

Carboniferous metagranites with U-Pb zircon crystallization ages of 331–315 Ma crop out in
the Afyon zone in the northern margin of the Anatolide-Tauride Block, which is commonly …