Continental arc volcanism and tectonic setting in Central Anatolia, Turkey

Tertiary-Quaternary subduction processes and related magmatism in the Alpine-Mediterranean region

“…5 and 6; Innocenti et al 1975;Aydar et al 1995;Alici et al 1998;Temel et al 1998a;1998b). In Cappadocia extensive dacitic to rhyolitic ignimbrite sheets were deposited from the Late Miocene to Quaternary, associated with large andesitic stratovolcanoes and alkali basaltic scoria cones and maars (Pasquare et al 1988;Le Pennec et al 1994;Kürkçüoglu et al 1998;Temel et al 1998b).…”

Geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, and depositional environment of a Late Miocene/Pliocene fluviolacustrine succession, Cappadocian Volcanic Province, central Anatolia, Turkey

“…Consistent with this worldwide pattern, the mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of volcanic and pyroclastic rocks (especially ignimbrites) and the tectonics of the Cappadocian Volcanic Province (CVP) have been studied by many researchers (Beekman, 1966;Pasquaré, 1968;Innocenti et al, 1975;Pasquaré et al, 1988;Temel, 1992;Göncüoğlu and Toprak, 1992;Le Pennec et al, 1994, 2005Schumacher and Mues-Schumacher, 1996;Toprak, 1996Toprak, , 1998Schumacher and Schumacher, 1997;Temel et al, 1998;Dirik, 2001;ViereckGoette et al, 2010). In this region, the volcano-sedimentary rocks and associated palaeosols and calcretes have received little attention (Le Pennec et al, 2005;Gürel and Kadir, 2006Gürel and Yıldız, 2007;Gürel, 2009;Yavuz-Işık and Toprak, 2010;Kadir et al, 2013).…”

Geochemistry, mineralogy and petrogenesis of the northeast Niğde volcanics, central Anatolia, Turkey

“…This depression began to develop after the Oligocene phase of folding of the Taurides (Pasquare et al 1988). The extensive volcanic activity in this area commenced in Mid-Late Miocene and continued until prehistoric times based on radiometric age determinations from different parts of the volcanic complex (Innocenti et al 1975;Besang et al 1977;Ercan et al 1990;Olanca et al 1992;Toprak et al 1994;Mues-Sachumacher and Schumacher 1996).…”

“…The northeast Nigde volcanics comprise the southern continuation of the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province which represents one of the most outstanding examples of arc volcanism related to continental collision between the Afro-Arabian and Eurasian plates (Innocenti et al 1975;Tokel et al 1988;Pasquare et al 1988;Ylmaz 1990;Toprak et al 1994;Toprak 1998). This volcanic complex is situated between two main conjugate faults, trends in a NE-SW direction and extends about 300 km in central Anatolia (Figure 1).…”

“…The volcanic activity developed in central Anatolia in this compressive setting is clearly conditioned by these main transcurrent fault systems during Neogene and Quaternary times and occurred in a large continental, postorogenic depression located between Taurides and Anatolides ( Figure 1) (Pasquare et al 1988;Göncüoglu and Toprak 1992). This depression began to develop after the Oligocene phase of folding of the Taurides (Pasquare et al 1988).…”