GENESIS OF COLLISION VOLCANISM IN EASTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY


PEARCE J., BENDER J., DELONG S., KIDD W., LOW P., GUNER Y., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH, cilt.44, ss.189-229, 1990 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Özet

Late Cenozoic volcanism in Eastern Anatolia extends in a broad SW - NE trending belt across the Arabia - Eurasia collision zone, from the Arabian foreland basin in the southwest and to the Kars Plateau and Lesser Caucasus in the notheast. Foreland volcanism is dominated by basaltic shield and fissure eruptions of transitional tholeiitic - alkaline composition. Volcanism on the thickened crust north of the Bitlis Thrust Zone varies from the mildly alkaline volcano, Nemrut, and older Mus volcanics in the south, through the transitional calc-alkaline/alkaline volcanoes Bingol and Suphan and the alkaline volcano Tendurek to the calc-alkaline volcano Ararat and older Kars plateau volcanics in the north.