Late orogenic crustal extension in the Northern Menderes Massif (Western Turkey): Evidence for metamorphic core complex formation

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 757-765

  Işik, Veysel ^a   Tekeli, Okan ^a  

^a Ankara Universites   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brittle deformation; Detachment fault; Menderes massif; Mylonitic deformation; Shear sense indicators; Simav metamorphic core complex; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OROGENY; TERTIARY;

TURKEY;

EID: 17744377939     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005310000105     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Akdeniz N, Konak N (1979) Geology of Simav-Emet-TavsanliDursunbey-Demirci area. Min Res Explor (MTA) Ankara report no. 6547 (in Turkish)
2. Berthe D, Choukroune P, Jegouzo P (1979) Orthogneiss, mylonite and non-coaxial deformation of granites: the example of the south Armorican shear zone. J Struct Geol 1:31-42
3. Bingol E, Delaloye M, Ataman G (1982) Granitic intrusions in western Anatolia: a contribution to the geodynamic study of this area. Eclogae Geol Helv 75:437-446
4. Bozkurt E, Park RG (1994) Southern Menderes Massif: an incipient metamorphic core complex in western Anatolia, Turkey. J Geol Soc Lond 151:213-216
5. Buick IS (1991) Mylonitic fabric development on Naxos Greece. J Struct Geol 13:643-655
6. Cohen HA, Dart CS, Akyuz HS, Barka A (1995) Syn-rift sedimentation and structural development of the Gediz and Büyük Menderes graben western Turkey. J Geol Soc Lond 152:629-638
7. Collins AS, Robertson AHF (1998) Processes of Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene episodic thrust sheet transition in the Lycian Taurides SW Turkey. J Geol Soc Lond 155:759-772
8. De Graciansky PC (1968) The stratigraphy of superimposed units in the Lycian Taurides and their place in the DinaroTauric arc. Min Res Explor Bull Ankara 71:42-62
9. Dewey JF, Sengor AMC (1979) Aegean and surrounding regions: complex multiple and continuum tectonics in a convergent zone. Bull Geol Soc Am 90:84-92
10. Dora OO, Candan O, Dürr S, Oberhansli R (1995) New evidence on the geotectonic evolution of the Menderes massif. Proc Int Earth Sei Coll Aegean Region, pp 53-72
11. Dürr S, Altherr R, Keller J, Okrusch M, Seidel E (1978) The Median Aegean Crystalline Belt: stratigraphy, structure, metamorphism, magmatism. In: Closs H, Roeder D, Schmidt K (eds) Alps, Apennines, Hellenides, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp 455-477
12. Emre T (1996) Geology and tectonics of the Gediz Graben. Tr J Earth Sciences 5:171-185 (in Turkish)
13. Ercan T, Satir M, Sevin D, Turkecan A (1997) Interpretation of radiometric ages data on Tertiary-Quaternary volcanic rocks in W Anatolia. Min Res Explor Bull Ankara 119:103-112 (in Turkish)
14. Gautier P, Brun JP (1994) Ductile crust exhumation and extensional detachments in the central Aegean (Cyclades, Eva Islands). Geodyn Acta 7:57-85
15. Hetzel R, Reischmann T (1996) Intrusion age of Pan-African augen gneisses in the southern Menderes Massif and the age of cooling after Alpine ductile extensional deformation. Geol Mag 133:565-572
16. Hetzel R, Passchier CW, Ring U, Dora ÖO (1995a) Bivergent extension in orogenic belts: the Menderes Massif (southwestern Turkey). Geology 23:455-458
17. Hetzel R, Ring U, Akal C, Troesch M (1995b) Miocene NNEdirected extensional unroofing in the Menderes Massif, southwestern Turkey. J Geol Soc Lond 152:639-654
18. Hetzel R, Romer RL, Candan O, Passchier CW (1998) Geology of the Bozdag area, central Menderes massif, SW Turkey: Pan-African basement and Alpine deformation. Geol Rundsch 87:394-406
19. Isik V, Tekeli O (1998) Structure of lower plate rocks in metamorphic core complex: northern Menderes Massif, western Turkey. Third International Turkish Geological Symposium Middle East Technical University, Ankara, abstracts, p 268
20. Isik V, Tekeli O, Cemen I (1997) Mylonitic fabric development along a detachment surface in northern Menderes Massif, western Anatolia, Turkey. Geol Soc Am Annual Meeting, abstracts with programs 29:A-220
21. Jackson J, McKenzie D (1988) The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Geophys J 93:45-73
22. Konak N (1982) Geology of Simav region and the evolution of metamorphic rocks. Istanbul Üniversitesi Mühendislik fakültesi Yerbilimleri Dergisi 3:313-337 (in Turkish)
23. Le Pichon X, Angelier J (1979) The Hellenic arc and trench system: a key to the neotectonic evolution of the eastern Mediterranean area. Tectonophysics 69:1-42
24. Lee J, Lister GS (1992) Late Miocene ductile extension and detachment faulting, Mykonos Greece. Geology 20:121-124
25. Lister GS, Banga G, Feensta A (1984) Metamorphic core complexes of Cordilleran type in the Cyclades Aegean Sea Greece. Geology 12:221-225
26. Lister GS, Snoke AW (1984) S-C mylonites. J Struct Geol 6:617-638
27. McKenzie D (1978) Active tectonics of the Alpine-Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions (tectonics of the Alpine Region). Geophys J R Astr Soc 55:17-245
28. Okay AI (1984) Distribution and characteristics of the norh-west Turkish blueschists. In: Dixon JE, Robertson AHF (eds). The geological evolution of the eastern Mediterranean. Geol Soc Am Spec Publ 17:455-466
29. Okay AI, Satir M, Maluski H, Siyako M, Monie P, Metzger R, Akyuz S (1996) Paleo-and Neo-Tethyan events in northwestern Turkey: geologic and geochronologic constraints. In: Yin A, Harison TM (eds) The tectonic evolution of Asia, pp 420-441
30. Oztunali O (1973) Petrology and geochronology of Uludag (NW Anatolia) and Egrigoz (W Anatolia) massifs. Istanbul Universitesi Fen Fakultesi Monografileri 23:1-115 (in Turkish)
31. Passchier CW, Simpson C (1986) Porphyroclast systems as kinematic indicators. J Struct Geol 8:831-844
32. Passchier CW, Trouw RAJ (1996) Microtectonics. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 1-289
33. Ring U, Gessner K, Güngör T, Passchier CW (1999) The Menderes Massif of western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the Aegean: Do they really correlate? J Geol Soc Lond 156:3-6
34. Seyitoglu G (1997) The Simav Graben: an example of young E-W trending structures in the late Cenozoic extensional system of western Turkey. Tr J Earth Sciences 6:135-141
35. Seyitoglu G, Scott BC (1996) The cause of N-S extensional tectonics in western Turkey: tectonic escape vs back-arc spreading vs erogenic collapse. J Geodyn 22:45-153
36. Seyitoglu G, Scott BC, Rundle CC (1992) Timing of Cenozoic extensional tectonics in west Turkey. J Geol Soc Lond 149:533-538
37. Sengor AMC (1987) Cross-faults and differential stretching of hanging walls in regions of low-angle normal faulting: examples from western Turkey. In: Coward MP, Dewey JF, Hancock PL (eds) Continental extensional tectonics. Geol Soc Am Spec Publ 28:575-589
38. Sengor AMC, Yilmaz Y (1981) Tethyan evolution of Turkey: a plate tectonic approach. Tectonophysics 75:181-241
39. Sengor AMC, Satir M, Akkok R (1984) Timing of tectonic events in the Menderes Massif, western Turkey: implications for tectonic evolution and evidence for Pan-African basement in Turkey. Tectonics 3:693-707
40. Urai JL, Schuiling RD, Jansen JBH (1990) Alpine deformation on Naxos (Greece). In: Knipe RJ, Rutter EH (eds) Deformation mechanisms, rheology and tectonics. Geol Soc Am Spec Publ 54:509-522
41. Verge NJ (1993) Oligo-Miocène erogenic collapse tectonics in western Anatolia and the extensional exhumation of the Menderes Massif metamorphic-core-complex. In: Seranne M, Malavielle J (eds) Late erogenic extension in mountain belts. Documents Bureau Res Geol Min France 219:202
42. Yilmaz Y (1997) Geology of western Anatolia. In: Schindler C, Phister M (eds) Active tectonics of northwestern Anatolia: the Marmara Poly-Project. Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH, Zurich, pp 31-53