Late Cretaceous Arc Magmatism in the Southern Central Pontides: Constraints for the closure of the Northern Neotethyan branches

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2022-01-31

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Sayıt, Kaan
Cemal Göncüoğlu, M.
Ellero, Alessandro
Ottria, Giuseppe
Frassi, Chiara
Marroni, Michele
Pandolfi, Luca

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In the southern Central Pontides in northern Turkey the remnants of two Neotethyan oceanic basins, currently represented by the Intra-Pontide and the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan sutures, and the interposing continental microplate (i.e., the Sakarya Composite Terrane) are completely dissected by the North Anatolian Shear Zone (NASZ). Within the resulting kilometre-scale, strike-slip fault-bounded blocks, several Late Cretaceous arc-type magmatic units have been detected. In this paper, we present new geochemical data from one of these magmatic units, the Yerkuyu Unit, that forms an ENE-WSW trending 30-km long and 10-km wide lens-shaped body surrounded by the splays of the NASZ. The studied igneous lithologies have a subduction-related magmatic geochemical signature matching with another lozenge-shaped magmatic block of the Tafano Unit. However, the tectono-magmatic characterization indicates that the Tafano Unit magmatism developed within a continental arc tectonic setting, while the volcanic rocks of the Yerkuyu Unit derived from oceanic arc magmatism. This finding indicates that the subducted oceanic lithosphere of the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan branch of the Neotethys Ocean produced oceanic volcanic arcs close to the subduction zone (i.e., the Yerkuyu Unit) and beneath the Sakarya continental microplate (i.e., the Tafano Unit).

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Andesites, Central pontides, Geodynamics, Neotethys ocean, Northern Turkey, Volcanic arc

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96642

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Ofioliti

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https://doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v47i1.549

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K. Sayıt et al., “Late Cretaceous Arc Magmatism in the Southern Central Pontides: Constraints for the closure of the Northern Neotethyan branches,” Ofioliti, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 19–35, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85124453777&origin=inward.