Burial and exhumation history of the Daday Unit (Central Pontides, Turkey): implications for the closure of the Intra-Pontide oceanic basin

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Frassi C., Marroni M., Pandolfi L., GÖNCÜOĞLU M. C., Ellero A., Ottria G., ...More

GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, vol.155, no.2, pp.356-376, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 155 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Doi Number: 10.1017/s0016756817000176
  • Journal Name: GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.356-376
  • Keywords: P-T-t-D path, HP metamorphism, exhumation, Intra-Pontide suture zone, northern Turkey, NORTHERN TURKEY, SUTURE ZONE, GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE, FACIES METAMORPHISM, TECTONIC EVOLUTION, CRUSTAL EXTENSION, THERMAL STRUCTURE, NORTHWEST TURKEY, SUBDUCTION, ARC
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In northern Turkey, the Intra-Pontide suture zone represents one of the first-order tectonic structures located between the Istanbul-Zonguldak and the Sakarya continental terranes. It consists of an E-W-trending assemblage of deformed and variably metamorphosed tectonic units, including sedimentary rocks and ophiolites derived from a Neo-Tethyan oceanic basin, known as the Intra-Pontide oceanic basin. One of these units is represented by the Daday Unit that consists of a block-in-matrix assemblage derived from supra-subduction oceanic crust and related deep-sea sedimentary cover of Middle Jurassic age. This setting was acquired during Late Jurassic time by tectonic underplating at a depth of 35-42 km associated with blueschist-facies metamorphism (D1 phase). The following D2, D3 and D4 phases produced the exhumation of the Daday Unit up to shallower structural levels in a time span running from the Albian to late Paleocene. The high geothermal gradient detected during the D2 phase indicates that the Daday Unit was exhumed during a continent-arc collisional setting. The tectonic structures of the Intra-Pontide suture zone, resulting from the previously described tectonic history, are unconformably sealed by the upper Paleocene - Eocene deposits. This tectonic setting was intensely reworked by the activity of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, producing the present-day geometrical relationships of the Intra-Pontide suture zone of the Central Pontides.