Neotectonics of East Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) and Lesser Caucasus: implication for transition from thrusting to strike-slip faulting

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2001-01-01

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Kocyigit, A
Yilmaz, A
Adamia, S
Kuloshvili, S

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The east Anatolian plateau and the Lesser Caucasus are characterised and shaped by three major structures: (1) NW-and NE-trending dextral to sinistral active strike-slip faults, (2) N-S to NNW-trending fissures and /or Plio-Quaternary volcanoes, and (3) a 5-km thick, undeformed Plio-Quaternary continental volcanosedimentary sequence accumulated in Various strike-slip basins. In contrast to the situation in the east Anatolian plateau and the Lesser Caucasus, the Transcaucasus and the Great Caucasus are characterised by WNW-trending active thrust to reverse faults, folds, and 6-km thick, undeformed (except for the fault-bounded basin margins) continuous Oligocene-Quaternary molassic sequence accumulated in actively developing ramp basins. Hence, the neotectonic regime in the Great Caucasus and the Transcaucasus is compressional-contractional, and Oligocene-Quaternary in age; whereas it is compressional-extensional, and Plio-Quaternary in age in the east Anatolian plateau and the Lesser Caucasus.

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East Anatolian Plateau, Caucasus, Neotectonics, Ramp basin, Strike-slip basin

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67783

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GEODINAMICA ACTA

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https://doi.org/10.1016/s0985-3111(00)01064-0

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A. Kocyigit, A. Yilmaz, S. Adamia, and S. Kuloshvili, “Neotectonics of East Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) and Lesser Caucasus: implication for transition from thrusting to strike-slip faulting,” GEODINAMICA ACTA, pp. 177–195, 2001, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67783.