Introduction The Anatolian plate is made up of various continental fragments and suture zones among them. These continental fragments are, from N to S, the Strandja Massif, the İstanbul and Sakarya Zones, the Anatolide-Tauride Block (Anatolide-Tauride Platform), the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex (Kırşehir Massif, Kırşehir Block, Central Anatolian Massif), and the Arabian Platform (Şengör and Yılmaz, 1981; Şengör et al., 1982; Okay and Tüysüz, 1999) (Figure 1). The northwestern-western part of the Anatolide-Tauride Block consists of the Tavşanlı Zone, the Afyon Zone, and the Menderes Massif (Figure 1). The Tavşanlı Zone is a ~250 km long and ~50 km wide east-west trending belt located just south of the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Suture Zone (Figures 1 and 2) (Okay, 2008). This suture zone represents the northern Neo-Tethyan ocean, which began to open between Laurasia and Gondwana from the Middle-Late Triassic (Tekin et al., 2002) and started to close between the Sakarya Zone and the Anatolide-Tauride Block during the Late Cretaceous (in the west) (e.g., Tüysüz et al., 1995; Meijers et al., 2010; Lefebvre et al., 2013). Following the collision, convergence between the Sakarya Zone and the Anatolide-Tauride Block remained until the Late Tertiary (Şengör and Yılmaz, 1981). The zone is made up of blueschists tectonically overlain by an accretionary or mélange complex, peridotite slabs (Figure 2), and granodiorites (Okay et al., 1998). The blueschist sequence contains Permo-Triassic metapelitic schists at the base, overlain by Mesozoic marbles and a series of metabasite, metachert, and phyllite at the top (Okay, 1984). Metamorphic ages for the blueschists yield values between 80.