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Geological Magazine; March 2002; v. 139; no. 2; p. 191-197; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802006295
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Origin of the Upper Cretaceous—Tertiary sedimentary basins within the Tauride—Anatolide platform in Turkey

Ö. F. GÜRER* and E. ALDANMAZ

Department of Geology, University of Kocaeli, Izmit TR-41040, Turkey

* Author for correspondence: feyziqurer{at}yahoo.cm

A number of sedimentary basins formed within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform of Anatolia during the Late Cretaceous–Tertiary period. Previous studies have proposed different tectonic and evolutionary models for each basin. Geological characteristics of the basins, however, suggest that all these basins are of the same origin and that they followed a similar evolutionary model to one another. Basin development within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform took place in a post-collisional environment following the northward subduction of the northern Neotethys ocean beneath the Pontides. The closure of the northern Neotethys ocean ended with collision of the Tauride–Anatolide Platform with the Pontide volcanic arc and resulted in large bodies of oceanic remnants thrust over the Tauride–Anatolide Platform as ophiolite nappes. Formation of the sedimentary basins followed the emplacement of the ophiolite nappes as they formed as piggy-back basins on top of the underlying thrust ophiolite basement.




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