Abstract
A brief summary has been given, in five tables, of the main structural and stratigraphic units of the Anatolian orogenic belt and their possible continuation in southern Europe (the Balkans and northern Italy), based on the author's field observations in the Lombardic Alps (1929-31), Egypt (1937-40), Syria and Palestine (1943), and Turkey (1940-42) and on further evidence from the literature. The main clue to this comparative analysis of regional tectonic units in southeastern Europe and Asia Minor was obtained from a study of the boundary between the so-calledArabian and Anatolian fades in southern Turkey and the location of a regional fault zone in northern Turkey, the Izmit-Erzurum line (comparable with the San Andreas fault in California), containing the epicenters of devastating earthquakes. Stratigraphical and structural evidence indicate the continuation of this fault zone through the Struma and Morava valleys of the Balkans into the Drauzug of the Karawanken Mountains and the Insubric fault ...
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