Abstract
Abstract This Special Publication presents the results of 15 different studies in the Black Sea–Caucasus segment of the Alpine–Tethys orogenic realm. The main focus of these studies is the style and timing of key tectonic events occurring primarily during the area's post-Pangaean evolution. The methodologies encompass: geophysics, including active and passive crustal-scale seismology and common depth point reflection seismic profiling (both onshore and marine), palaeomagnetism and magnetostratigraphy; field geology, including biostratigraphic recorrelation; radiochronology; igneous rock geochemistry, including analyses of the obducted ophiolites; and low-temperature thermochronology. The geological record of the area is essentially one of sedimentary basins formed in an extensional back-arc setting and their subsequent compressional deformation during the closure of at least two branches of the Neotethys Ocean system.
Highlights
This Special Publication presents the results of 15 different studies in the Black Sea– Caucasus segment of the Alpine–Tethys orogenic realm
The sedimentary basins of interest in the study area are largely formed on top of and within the continental lithosphere of the Eurasian plate
An exception is the SE corner, adjacent to the Cenozoic magmatic province found in the Turkish eastern Pontides, which is an issue addressed in this volume
Summary
This Special Publication presents the results of 15 different studies in the Black Sea– Caucasus segment of the Alpine–Tethys orogenic realm.
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