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Cenozoic forearc gabbros from the northern zone of the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt, NE Turkey: Implications for slab window magmatism and convergent margin tectonics

  • 1. Karadeniz Tech Univ, Dept Geol Engn, TR-61080 Trabzon, Turkey
  • 2. MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
  • 3. China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci & Mineral Resources, 29 Xue Yuan Rd, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China
  • 4. Korea Basic Sci Inst, YangCheong 804-1, Cheongwon 363883, Chungbuk, South Korea
  • 5. Gumushane Univ, Dept Geol Engn, TR-29000 Gumushane, Turkey

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The Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt represents one of the best examples of fossil convergent margins in the eastern Mediterranean region. However, the origin and geodynamic setting of the late Mesozoic-Cenozoic magmatism in this belt remain controversial due to lack of systematic geological, geochemical and chronological data. The general consensus is that the late Mesozoic-Cenozoic igneous activity is related to northward subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the late Mesozoic and following collision between Tauride and Pontide blocks in the early Cenozoic Here we present a comprehensive study focusing on the origin and geodynamic setting of gabbro bodies exposed along a narrow zone, parallel to the southeastern coast of the eastern Black Sea basin, in the Northern Zone of the Eastern Pontides Orogenic Belt.

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