期刊
COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE
卷 348, 期 1, 页码 23-32出版社
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2015.11.002
关键词
Black Sea; Caucasus; Ophiolites; Cretaceous; Neotethys; Paleotectonic reconstruction
资金
- Groupement De Recherche International Geosciences Sud Caucase of the CNRS\INSU
- MEBE Program
- DARIUS Program
We report new observations in the eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region that allow reconstructing the evolution of the Neotethys in the Cretaceous. At that time, the Neotethys oceanic plate was subducting northward below the continental Eurasia plate. Based on the analysis of the obducted ophiolites that crop out throughout Lesser Caucasus and East Anatolides, we show that a spreading center (AESA basin) existed within the Neotethys, between Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Later, the spreading center was carried into the subduction with the Neotethys plate. We argue that the subduction of the spreading center opened a slab window that allowed asthenospheric material to move upward, in effect thermally and mechanically weakening the otherwise strong Eurasia upper plate. The local weakness zone favored the opening of the Black Sea back-arc basins. Later, in the Late Cretaceous, the AESA basin obducted onto the Taurides-Anatolides-South Armenia Microplate (TASAM), which then collided with Eurasia along a single suture zone (AESA suture). (C) 2015 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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