Late Jurassic amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone (Turkey): an eastward extension of the Vardar Ocean from the Balkans into Anatolia?

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2014-09-01

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Marroni, M.
Frassi, C.
Göncüoğlu, Mehmet Cemal
Di Vincenzo, G.
Pandolfi, L.
Rebay, G.
Elero, A.
Ottria, G.

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The palaeogeography of Neotethys during its closure is still a matter of debate. This study provides new insights into the Neotethys closure by the discovery in the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone (Turkey) of an accretionary complex that recorded a Late Jurassic (c. 163 Ma) amphibolite-facies metamorphism. Results are discussed in the framework of the accretionary events that occurred at the southern margin of Laurasia. The resulting picture supports a new model in which the Vardar suture zone, in the Balkans, and the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone, in Anatolia, represent remnants of the same elongate oceanic basin.

Subject Keywords

Rocks, Complex, Evolution, Subduction, Geochronology, Melange, Ophiolite, Nw Turkey, Northern Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30711

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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2013-104

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M. Marroni et al., “Late Jurassic amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone (Turkey): an eastward extension of the Vardar Ocean from the Balkans into Anatolia?,” JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, pp. 605–608, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30711.