Late Jurassic amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone (Turkey): an eastward extension of the Vardar Ocean from the Balkans into Anatolia?

Marroni M., Frassi C., GÖNCÜOĞLU M. C., Di Vincenzo G., Pandolfi L., Rebay G., ...More

JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, vol.171, no.5, pp.605-608, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 171 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.1144/jgs2013-104
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.605-608
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The palaeogeography of Neotethys during its closure is still a matter of debate. This study provides new insights into the Neotethys closure by the discovery in the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone (Turkey) of an accretionary complex that recorded a Late Jurassic (c. 163 Ma) amphibolite-facies metamorphism. Results are discussed in the framework of the accretionary events that occurred at the southern margin of Laurasia. The resulting picture supports a new model in which the Vardar suture zone, in the Balkans, and the Intra-Pontide Suture Zone, in Anatolia, represent remnants of the same elongate oceanic basin.