Late Cretaceous extensional denudation along a marble detachment fault zone in the Kirsehir massif near Kaman, central Turkey

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2011-08-01

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Lefebvre, Come
Barnhoorn, Auke
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J.
Kaymakcı, Nuretdin
Vissers, Reinoud L. M.

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In the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex (CACC), 100 km scale metamorphic domains were exhumed in a context of north-south plate convergence during late Cretaceous to Cenozoic times. The timing, kinematics and mechanisms of exhumation have been the focus of previous studies in the southern Nigde Massif. In this study, we investigate the unexplored northern area regarding the tectonic features preserved on the edges of the Kirsehir Massif, based on detailed field-mapping in the Kaman area where high-grade metasediments, non-metamorphic ophiolites and monzonitic plutons are locally exposed together. Close to the contact with the ophiolites, west-dipping foliated marble-rich rocks display mylonites and discrete protomylonites with normal shear senses indicating a general top-to-the W NW direction. Both of these structures have been brittlely overprinted into cataclastic corridors parallel to the main foliation. The mylonite series and superimposed brittle structures together define the Kaman fault zone. The study of the evolution of calcite deformation fabrics along an EW section supported by Electron Back Scattered Diffraction measurements (EBSD) on representative fabrics indicates that the Kaman fault zone represents an extensional detachment.

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Calcite mylonites, EBSD, Extensional detachment, Exhumation, Central anatolia

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32867

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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2011.06.002

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C. Lefebvre, A. Barnhoorn, D. J. J. van Hinsbergen, N. Kaymakcı, and R. L. M. Vissers, “Late Cretaceous extensional denudation along a marble detachment fault zone in the Kirsehir massif near Kaman, central Turkey,” JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, pp. 1220–1236, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32867.