Geodynamic significance of the Cretaceous pillow basalts from North Anatolian Ophiolitic Melange Belt (Central Anatolia, Turkey): geochemical and paleontological constraints
GEODINAMICA ACTA, vol.17, no.5, pp.349-361, 2004 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 17 Issue: 5
- Publication Date: 2004
- Doi Number: 10.3166/ga.17.349-361
- Journal Name: GEODINAMICA ACTA
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.349-361
- Keywords: seamount, pillow basalt, Ocean Island Basalt, Late Barremian-Early Aptian, Ankara Melange, Tethys, TECTONIC EVOLUTION, ANKARA MELANGE, VOLCANIC-ROCKS, RIDGE BASALTS, NEO-TETHYS, DISCRIMINATION, RADIOLARIANS, PETROGENESIS, THOLEIITES, PETROLOGY
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
The most widespread blocks within the Cretaceous ophiolitic melange (North Anatolian ophiolitic melange) in Central Anatolia (Turkey) are pillow basalts, radiolarites, other ophiolitic fragments and Jurassic-Cretaceous carbonate blocks. The pillow basalts crop out as discrete blocks in close relation to radiolarites and ophiolitic units in Cretaceous ophiolitic melange.