Chapter from:
AAPG Memoir 68:Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region, Edited by A.G. Robinson
AAPG Memoir 68: Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region. Chapter 14: Tectonic-Sedimentary Evolution of the North Tethyan Margin in the Central Pontides of Northern Turkey, by Timur Ustaomer and Alastair Robertson, Pages 255-290

Chapter 14
Tectonic-Sedimentary Evolution of the North Tethyan Margin in the Central Pontides of Northern Turkey

Timur Ustaomer
Istanbul University
Istanbul, Turkey

Alastair Robertson
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

ABSTRACT

The Central Pontides of northern Turkey is one of the best exposed segments of the southern margin of Eurasia adjacent to the Tethys Ocean, at least from the Paleozoic onward, and its history can be taken as a guide to the tectonic evolution of the Pontides as a whole. A number of east-west-trending tectonic units record subduction-accretion and the growth of the south Eurasian margin. The Central Pontides also document Lower Cretaceous lithospheric extension related to opening of the Black Sea during the Late Mesozoic-Early Tertiary, and a later active margin and collisional history.