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The eastern Black Sea-Caucasus region during the Cretaceous: New evidence to constrain its tectonic evolution

Sosson, Marc ; Stephenson, Randell ; Sheremet, Yevgeniya ; Rolland, Yann ; Adamia, Shota ; Melkonian, Rafael ; Kangarli, Talat ; Yegorova, Tamara ; Avagyan, Ara ; Galoyan, Ghazar ; Danelian, Taniel ; Hässig, Marc ; Meijers, Maud ; Müller, Carla ; Sahakyan, Lilit ; Sadradze, Nino ; Alania, Victor ; Enukidze, Onice ; Mosar, Jon

In: Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 2016, vol. 348, no. 1, p. 23–32

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...