Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia

Paleomagnetic analysis of neotectonic deformation in the Anatolian accretionary collage, Turkey
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Published:January 01, 2006
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J.D.A. Piper, O. Tatar, H. Gursoy, F. Koçbulut, B.L. Mesci, 2006. "Paleomagnetic analysis of neotectonic deformation in the Anatolian accretionary collage, Turkey", Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia, Yildirim Dilek, Spyros Pavlides
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Closure of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean in the Turkish sector of the Alpine-Himalayan orogen by ca. 12 Ma was succeeded by deformation of a domain between the Eurasia plate, presently bounded by the North Anatolian fault, and the Arabian indenter. Facets of this deformation comprise the crustal thickening and uplift that produced the Anatolian plateau, the establishment of transform faults, and tectonic escape as Arabia has continued to impinge into the collage of Anatolian terranes accreted by closure of the Neo-Tethys. We have compiled a database of neotectonic paleomagnetic results from Anatolia to analyze this deformation. Large rotations (up to 5°/10,000...
- accretion
- Aegean Sea
- Anatolia
- Arabian Plate
- Asia
- block structures
- Cenozoic
- continental lithosphere
- Cretaceous
- crust
- crustal thickening
- data bases
- data processing
- decoupling
- East Mediterranean
- Eurasian Plate
- extension
- faults
- igneous rocks
- lava flows
- lithosphere
- magnetic anomalies
- magnetic inclination
- Mediterranean region
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mesozoic
- Middle East
- neotectonics
- Neotethys
- North Anatolian Fault
- paleomagnetism
- plate tectonics
- plateaus
- rotation
- strike-slip faults
- systems
- tectonics
- terranes
- Tethys
- transform faults
- Turkey
- Upper Cretaceous
- upper crust
- volcanic rocks